Comments on: Who Gives Carbohydrates To Diabetics?

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:17:49 +0000

Hi, how can I get that spreadsheet you used in the movie, so I could track my intake. By the way, the movie is really good, lots of great information.

It’s a little Access program I wrote. Doesn’t even work in later editions of Access. I might create an updated one someday.

By: lynn

lynn — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:07:18 +0000

“take my wife to the fancy seafood restaurant where, halfway through dinner on our second date, I knew I wanted to marry her someday”.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw – that is so nice!

By: Ellen

Ellen — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:45:00 +0000

Tom, Laura from the NM Society sent me her postcards, and I turned them into posters for her. Hopefully she will be able to post them on her nmsociety.org freebies page soon. I have the one above at the bottom of my ADA page here:
http://www.healthy-eating-politics.com/american-diabetes-association.html

Love it. Short, punchy, very effective.

By: k_the_c

k_the_c — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:13:31 +0000

Looks like Health.com is giving out free bad advice:

http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20359383_5,00.html

Yeah, I saw that. Health.com is one of those rags that basically just pushes whatever the government says is the proper health and nutrition advice.

By: Chad Wallace

Chad Wallace — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:48:53 +0000

Hey Tom,
have a great time in Chicago. Go Blackhawks!

Stay away from that big polar bear in the foyer, that thing still gives me nightmares.

I managed to avoid that one.

By: Cathryn

Cathryn — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:46:58 +0000

Speaking of hospital food…I have to bring my own or my husband brings me what we call “safe food.” I was hospitalized two years ago and we found out that hospitals can’t cater to special needs–like my diet. I have to bring my own because hospitals serve processed foods. So on my admitting charts, we spell it out I’m allergic to ALL food preservatives which are found in processed foods. It doesn’t save me a lot of hassle–but it does help.

One time a nurse brought me a tray of food and said, “Tell me what you can eat on this tray!” I proceeded to tell her the toast was made with enriched flours and has preservatives out the yin-yang; the egg substitute mush was nothing but preservatives–especially BHA and BHT which causes anaphalatic shock in me; the “turkey bacon” was extremely high in sodium–bad for damaged kidneys and loaded with MSG; and the juice was rich with HFCS–another preservative. She looked at me and said, “Oh” before taking the tray again. I never had to fight her about eating hospital food the rest of my stay.

That sounds like a good plan.

By: David

David — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:17:32 +0000

The 15g. of carbohydrates = 1 carb is from the ADA diet plan. When you see an ADA approved food it will say something like “Counts as 2 proteins, 1 fat and 2 carbs.” Their plan allows so many servings of each daily.

8g of protein = 1 protein.
4g of fat = 1 fat
15g. of carbohydrates = 1 carb

It was nice of them to make horrible dietary advice simple to follow.

By: Thom Brogan

Thom Brogan — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:35:08 +0000

Happy Anniversary, Naughtons!

Can’t wait to hear how the trip went and how the pizza tasted when you get back.

I can tell you already the pizza was delicious.

By: Dave, RN

Dave, RN — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:29:22 +0000

I’ve got it hanging in my office now, but as an 8.5 by 11, the resolution isn’t too great. May the nm society will put a high resolution one on their website…

By: Paul B.

Paul B. — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:27:39 +0000

Great discussion here regarding hospital food. I was hospitalized exactly once–at age 8 to have my tonsils removed (they did that a lot back then). I do everything I possibly can to avoid going back, and hope I never do. Im sure hospitals are not inclined to offer low carb options, and even if they wanted to they probably couldn’t because any facility that gets federal funds has to follow the food pyramid. Whenever I visit friends or relatives in a hospital Im always horrified at the food. If, God forbid, I had to go to a hospital I would beg, pay, and threaten my friends to bring decent food in a couple of times a day. And heaven help the hospital employee who tries to stop me!

I see a business opportunity: smuggling decent food into hospitals.