Great article Nina! Given that Big-Ag, Big-Food, and Big-Pharma all appear to coalesce at the same influential person(s), ref. Fauci/Gates/etc, only we as private citizens can remain determined to keep ourselves healthy and out of questionable hospitals and the broken-healthcare systems that pretend to cure us, but in fact just keep us dependent. Eat well & Stay healthy folks!
"You can expect this URL to change. The USDA has shifted the website locations of its scientific reviews numerous times, with no forwarding addresses. My original BMJ paper on the 2015 Dietary Guidelines updated its footnotes once but could not keep up with the ever-disappearing URLs for the evidence-based of our nation’s nutrition policy."
CDC pulls the same crap with all things Covid data. URLs have a a frustratingly uncertain half-life. Whether it's deliberate obfuscation or incompetence, it's infuriating nonetheless.
Brilliant! Bandaids seem to be the preferred solution by our government, organizations and those "benefiting" from sickness. Keep exposing them as you ARE listened to, as we are slowly getting there and it will not happen overnight, but there are children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren to think about going forward, not to mention our own health by avoiding the nonsense. Thanks!
A day in the life... One key point amongst so many other valid explanations, (Thank you Nina Teicholz!) as to how others profit while promoting deadly diseases, including tooth decay. It is no coincidence that the local big box store has palettes loaded with sugar in every form for consumers of all ages to consume. Being someone that prefers a high saturated fat diet, with nearly 0 carbs, when it comes to visiting the pharmacy department, so conveniently located in the big box store. I was in search of sugar-free cough drops, looking on the cough drop shelves for (sugar-free lemon eucalyptus) cough drops for two months on several occasions finding zip, thus disappointed. Finally the shelves were re-stocked, with anticipation I looked for the sugar-free lemon drops and to my disgust, they only re-stocked sugar containing drops. It takes a lot of self control to not be in a state of anxiety and anger realizing that business as usual, does not support human lives or the health of. In a better world, Nina Teicholz would be awarded a medal for your Humanitarianism. I believe your work and ability to disseminate, articulate the cash cow corruption that has so many suffering and dying needlessly is worthy of recognition, while those in power are worthy of being called out, as you have been doing with the truth, backed with scientific facts with such dedication!
Great article Nina! Keep pushing, even if our corrupt government doesn’t change its upside down pyramid we can keep the effort going at the grass roots level and work around their and policies - as usual.
Was in the midst of reading Michael Fumento's 1993 book "Science Under Siege" when I read your post. His Chapter 11 is about how gasohol, ethanol, and farm subsidies were going on in Congress [involving both political parties] in the late 60s through 80s aided by funding from the Archer Daniels Midland PAC and lead executives. That chapter says [p.305] "...sugar price supports and sugar import restritions, both of which ADM has worked for through its representatives, also support ethanol....because of these tax breaks ...the nondiet soda you drink is almost certainly sweetened with HFCS and not sugar, which, but for the government's interference, would be much cheaper and hence would be the ingredient of choice of the carbonated beverage producers." I'm not advocating more sugar for diabetics here, just pointing out that incentivising the use of HFCS isn't an improvement and government interference in nutrition [and other things like gasoline and other fuels] has got to stop.
Diabetes Australia, which was founded in 1937 suggests a certain diet for type 2 diabetics.
This would mean they should have collected tens of thousands of metabolic outcomes from patients following their dietary suggestions....that makes sense right?..
They do not have even 1 metabolic outcome for even one patient after all these years..and most of their research(using public funds or donations etc)appears to go into chemical interventions done by universities in secret squirrel trials..
If you question them on this, they babble on about "worlds best practice" and point to Dietitians Australia for giving them advise..
Dietitians Australia have zero metabolic outcomes and hand wave and point to the
US -The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics for advise.
The US government doesn't care about the growing diabetes epidemic. They clearly don't care about the health of a child. Serving children donuts, skim milk, pizza, and nachos at school is proof. They should remove all processed junk food from food stamp recipients, including sugary drinks. This is a disaster so many ways. The DGA is the real Weapon of Destruction for humanity. But NINA, you are our best hope for change. You are our warrior marching forward. Your leadership is saving lives, along with the low carb experts. Keep marching onward. Thank you for your excellent work. ---Babs Hogan,
<i>Both parties have neglected to take meaningful steps towards combatting obesity, diabetes, or other chronic disease. Pledges to end cancer, fund new research, or reduce drug prices have been proposed by Republicans and Democrats alike, but tackling the root of the problem, which would require standing up to ultra-processed food manufacturers that generate chronic diseases as well as the pharmaceutical companies who treat them, and thus far, politicians on both sides of the aisle have chosen to avoid that challenge.</i>
Three guesses as to who owns Big Pharma, Big Food, and Big Oil stocks....these people are INVESTED in bad outcomes all around.
Type 2 gets all the attention, while us type 1s are over here going broke paying for medications to keep us alive and fight a disease we had no control over.
I find it peculiar that endocannabinoid system function is rarely mentioned in relation to type 2 diabetes. Excerpt: "Increasing evidence suggests that an overactive endocannabinoid system (ECS) may contribute to the development of diabetes by promoting energy intake and storage, impairing both glucose and lipid metabolism, by exerting pro-apoptotic effects in pancreatic beta cells and by facilitating inflammation in pancreatic islets." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4941127/
How does the endocannabinoid system become overactivated? "Arachidonic acid (AA) and its derivatives link nutrient metabolism to immunity and inflammation, thus holding a key role in the emergence and progression of frequent diseases such as obesity, diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and cardiovascular disease." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6274989/
Thank you Nina Tiecholz for this post and your book! Looking up (or down) from the Southern Hemisphere in the colloquial Land of Oz, the deception, lack of overall concern and care of health bureaucracies, health professionals, medical researchers for those with diabetes is hypocryphal in most if not all countries. In Oz at least, what hope I see, as a T1D for 56 years, is in those of the professions - health, research, legal, journal as example,. who have empathy via whatever life experiences combining with those of lived experience of diabetes to deal with: diabetes clinical/dietary guidelines, so laced with conflict of interest, pharmaco-centric focus and arranged exclusion of significant lived experience input, are forced on health professionals with threat of censure if not followed - but patients. carers parents of lived experience have fundamental rights to choose their science-backed treatment/management and to receive all options, even if not 'guideline-friendly', with which to make a decision - otherwise the espoused and beloved 'shared decision making process' is a sham; the need to root out those influential people in health departments, health research funding organisations, health professional colleges, guideline committees with conflicts of interest to support those people whose refusal to follow routine treatment leads to legal censure (think parents of diabetic children being reported to child services for supposed child neglect by following a low carb diets with their diabetic child. We are fortunate that Dr Fettke's harrowing trial has led not only to a backdown and formal apology from authorities but a freeing up of low carb prescribing by doctors (sadly not other health professions) and education by such doctors. Sadly, for unscientific reasons by Dietiitians Australia and lack of independent thought by many but not all paediatricians here, use of low carb diets in children with T1D is difficult to do - despite Dr Bernstein's work and recent studies. In summary I am hopeful that leveraging professional and lived experience 'cohorts' in combination can support each other to reduce and prevent egregious harm to diabetics and instead improve the lot of all those with diabetes. See also the work of David Gilbert, UK, the first patient leader, in UK in improving and encouraging people with lived experience of chronic health to occupy positions within health systems at middle management level where the power differential between clinician/admin. vs person with lived experience is more balanced -see inhealthassociates.co.uk
Nina, thank you SO much for connecting these all-too-politically-motifated dots about the T2DM epidemic - among KIDS especially - some as young as 10 according to the CDC - now affecting 1 child in 3 - my partner and I are working to educate PARENTS on the importance of good sleep, breathing, and craniofacial/airway growth as the best way to make T2DM (and external insulin) obsolete, as you so aptly put it. Hope it's okay to post this link to register for our Breathing and Sleep Health for KIDS Summit, produced by my co. Healthy Mouth Media: https://www.breathingandsleepsummit.com/
Hope this helps with de-obscuring the facts and thank you for your mission with Unsettled Science to do that!
Nina, keep punching!! Blows are being landed. You are part of my heightened awareness of nutrition as I proceed through my 60’s. My grandmother, mother and aunt all had type 2. That buck stops here!
It’s National Diabetes Month, and U.S. Plans Will Lead to…More Diabetes
Great article Nina! Given that Big-Ag, Big-Food, and Big-Pharma all appear to coalesce at the same influential person(s), ref. Fauci/Gates/etc, only we as private citizens can remain determined to keep ourselves healthy and out of questionable hospitals and the broken-healthcare systems that pretend to cure us, but in fact just keep us dependent. Eat well & Stay healthy folks!
"You can expect this URL to change. The USDA has shifted the website locations of its scientific reviews numerous times, with no forwarding addresses. My original BMJ paper on the 2015 Dietary Guidelines updated its footnotes once but could not keep up with the ever-disappearing URLs for the evidence-based of our nation’s nutrition policy."
CDC pulls the same crap with all things Covid data. URLs have a a frustratingly uncertain half-life. Whether it's deliberate obfuscation or incompetence, it's infuriating nonetheless.
Brilliant! Bandaids seem to be the preferred solution by our government, organizations and those "benefiting" from sickness. Keep exposing them as you ARE listened to, as we are slowly getting there and it will not happen overnight, but there are children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren to think about going forward, not to mention our own health by avoiding the nonsense. Thanks!
A day in the life... One key point amongst so many other valid explanations, (Thank you Nina Teicholz!) as to how others profit while promoting deadly diseases, including tooth decay. It is no coincidence that the local big box store has palettes loaded with sugar in every form for consumers of all ages to consume. Being someone that prefers a high saturated fat diet, with nearly 0 carbs, when it comes to visiting the pharmacy department, so conveniently located in the big box store. I was in search of sugar-free cough drops, looking on the cough drop shelves for (sugar-free lemon eucalyptus) cough drops for two months on several occasions finding zip, thus disappointed. Finally the shelves were re-stocked, with anticipation I looked for the sugar-free lemon drops and to my disgust, they only re-stocked sugar containing drops. It takes a lot of self control to not be in a state of anxiety and anger realizing that business as usual, does not support human lives or the health of. In a better world, Nina Teicholz would be awarded a medal for your Humanitarianism. I believe your work and ability to disseminate, articulate the cash cow corruption that has so many suffering and dying needlessly is worthy of recognition, while those in power are worthy of being called out, as you have been doing with the truth, backed with scientific facts with such dedication!
Great article Nina! Keep pushing, even if our corrupt government doesn’t change its upside down pyramid we can keep the effort going at the grass roots level and work around their and policies - as usual.
Dr Denise Faustman (Faustman Labs) has shown the 100 year old BCG Vaccine can reverse Type-1 Diabetes. Additional Clinical Trials are on-going.
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/ada-tb-vaccine-repurposed-type-1-diabetes-restores-gene-expression-key-immune-cells
https://www.faustmanlab.org/news/#media-coverage
Was in the midst of reading Michael Fumento's 1993 book "Science Under Siege" when I read your post. His Chapter 11 is about how gasohol, ethanol, and farm subsidies were going on in Congress [involving both political parties] in the late 60s through 80s aided by funding from the Archer Daniels Midland PAC and lead executives. That chapter says [p.305] "...sugar price supports and sugar import restritions, both of which ADM has worked for through its representatives, also support ethanol....because of these tax breaks ...the nondiet soda you drink is almost certainly sweetened with HFCS and not sugar, which, but for the government's interference, would be much cheaper and hence would be the ingredient of choice of the carbonated beverage producers." I'm not advocating more sugar for diabetics here, just pointing out that incentivising the use of HFCS isn't an improvement and government interference in nutrition [and other things like gasoline and other fuels] has got to stop.
Diabetes Australia, which was founded in 1937 suggests a certain diet for type 2 diabetics.
This would mean they should have collected tens of thousands of metabolic outcomes from patients following their dietary suggestions....that makes sense right?..
They do not have even 1 metabolic outcome for even one patient after all these years..and most of their research(using public funds or donations etc)appears to go into chemical interventions done by universities in secret squirrel trials..
If you question them on this, they babble on about "worlds best practice" and point to Dietitians Australia for giving them advise..
Dietitians Australia have zero metabolic outcomes and hand wave and point to the
US -The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics for advise.
Its clowns all the way down...
It is difficult to imagine no more improvement has been made. Thank you for your endless hard work.
The US government doesn't care about the growing diabetes epidemic. They clearly don't care about the health of a child. Serving children donuts, skim milk, pizza, and nachos at school is proof. They should remove all processed junk food from food stamp recipients, including sugary drinks. This is a disaster so many ways. The DGA is the real Weapon of Destruction for humanity. But NINA, you are our best hope for change. You are our warrior marching forward. Your leadership is saving lives, along with the low carb experts. Keep marching onward. Thank you for your excellent work. ---Babs Hogan,
The Healthy Cheese Lady
<i>Both parties have neglected to take meaningful steps towards combatting obesity, diabetes, or other chronic disease. Pledges to end cancer, fund new research, or reduce drug prices have been proposed by Republicans and Democrats alike, but tackling the root of the problem, which would require standing up to ultra-processed food manufacturers that generate chronic diseases as well as the pharmaceutical companies who treat them, and thus far, politicians on both sides of the aisle have chosen to avoid that challenge.</i>
Three guesses as to who owns Big Pharma, Big Food, and Big Oil stocks....these people are INVESTED in bad outcomes all around.
Type 2 gets all the attention, while us type 1s are over here going broke paying for medications to keep us alive and fight a disease we had no control over.
I find it peculiar that endocannabinoid system function is rarely mentioned in relation to type 2 diabetes. Excerpt: "Increasing evidence suggests that an overactive endocannabinoid system (ECS) may contribute to the development of diabetes by promoting energy intake and storage, impairing both glucose and lipid metabolism, by exerting pro-apoptotic effects in pancreatic beta cells and by facilitating inflammation in pancreatic islets." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4941127/
How does the endocannabinoid system become overactivated? "Arachidonic acid (AA) and its derivatives link nutrient metabolism to immunity and inflammation, thus holding a key role in the emergence and progression of frequent diseases such as obesity, diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and cardiovascular disease." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6274989/
Thank you Nina Tiecholz for this post and your book! Looking up (or down) from the Southern Hemisphere in the colloquial Land of Oz, the deception, lack of overall concern and care of health bureaucracies, health professionals, medical researchers for those with diabetes is hypocryphal in most if not all countries. In Oz at least, what hope I see, as a T1D for 56 years, is in those of the professions - health, research, legal, journal as example,. who have empathy via whatever life experiences combining with those of lived experience of diabetes to deal with: diabetes clinical/dietary guidelines, so laced with conflict of interest, pharmaco-centric focus and arranged exclusion of significant lived experience input, are forced on health professionals with threat of censure if not followed - but patients. carers parents of lived experience have fundamental rights to choose their science-backed treatment/management and to receive all options, even if not 'guideline-friendly', with which to make a decision - otherwise the espoused and beloved 'shared decision making process' is a sham; the need to root out those influential people in health departments, health research funding organisations, health professional colleges, guideline committees with conflicts of interest to support those people whose refusal to follow routine treatment leads to legal censure (think parents of diabetic children being reported to child services for supposed child neglect by following a low carb diets with their diabetic child. We are fortunate that Dr Fettke's harrowing trial has led not only to a backdown and formal apology from authorities but a freeing up of low carb prescribing by doctors (sadly not other health professions) and education by such doctors. Sadly, for unscientific reasons by Dietiitians Australia and lack of independent thought by many but not all paediatricians here, use of low carb diets in children with T1D is difficult to do - despite Dr Bernstein's work and recent studies. In summary I am hopeful that leveraging professional and lived experience 'cohorts' in combination can support each other to reduce and prevent egregious harm to diabetics and instead improve the lot of all those with diabetes. See also the work of David Gilbert, UK, the first patient leader, in UK in improving and encouraging people with lived experience of chronic health to occupy positions within health systems at middle management level where the power differential between clinician/admin. vs person with lived experience is more balanced -see inhealthassociates.co.uk
Nina, thank you SO much for connecting these all-too-politically-motifated dots about the T2DM epidemic - among KIDS especially - some as young as 10 according to the CDC - now affecting 1 child in 3 - my partner and I are working to educate PARENTS on the importance of good sleep, breathing, and craniofacial/airway growth as the best way to make T2DM (and external insulin) obsolete, as you so aptly put it. Hope it's okay to post this link to register for our Breathing and Sleep Health for KIDS Summit, produced by my co. Healthy Mouth Media: https://www.breathingandsleepsummit.com/
Hope this helps with de-obscuring the facts and thank you for your mission with Unsettled Science to do that!
Nina, keep punching!! Blows are being landed. You are part of my heightened awareness of nutrition as I proceed through my 60’s. My grandmother, mother and aunt all had type 2. That buck stops here!