Ahmed Afifi

Type One Grit: A1c and average glucose....revisited again. : In my previous posts, I: 1. Cast uncertainty on the regression formulas used to determine average blood sugar from A1c, particularly for l...

Amazing, isn't? it is a true fact that goes with many diabetics.they resist having good BS  numbers by eating food that they could not process (and they knew it every time they eat it) because of some Dr. say that these numbers are just fine. WOW. They go to endos who put them on the ADA recommendations that leads directly to complications in couple of short years or as Iprefer to name it "the complications' highway of ADA" ; which can be summarized as follows: "Eat High Carbs food and then Accept higher targets of blood sugar and die silently".  For those poor diabetics; time goes by and 180 mg/dl. after food and A1c of 7  for them become normal blood sugar numbers and well accepted. moreover; it is considered good control as long as their endo said so - based on the recommendations of ADA.! they are on the highway which after a while has no exits!! Let me ask those guys this:Why don't  you read and learn and be your own Diabetic advocate, it is...

From The Book of Blood Sugar 101 what They do not tell you about Diabetes by Jenny Ruhl Two large studies published within weeks of each other in early 2008 came to dramatically different results on this question.   Sadly, because most doctors have time only to read the headlines and don’t look into the details of these studies, many patients are being given the toxic—and inaccurate—advice to keep their A1cs high to protect their hearts. The first published study, called ACCORD, found that a population of people with diabetes and heart disease who had followed an aggressive program of lowering blood sugar had slightly more heart attack deaths than a control group who pursued laxer blood sugar control even though the group who followed the aggressive program attained an average A1c of 6.4%. However, the second study, ADVANCE, which had enrolled twice as many subjects as ACCORD and lasted longer, found no increase in deaths in the group of participants treated more aggressivel...