The headline to this post should be the headline to the article on Canada.com, but it isn't. The actual headline reads: Diet drug cuts blood sugar, trims waistline in type 2 diabetics, study finds. The same could be said about another article with this headline about another drug: AstraZeneca diabetes drug controls sugar, fats.
It would be one thing if patients were given the risks/rewards of these drugs versus going on a low carb diet, but they won't be given that option until the low carb diet is irrefutably proven safe over the long term -- and by that very definition, that time is years off.
Isn't it laughable how the diet dictocrats will sanction a drug that produces at least some of the good effects of a low carb diet while also exposing the patient to known and unknown side effects? At the same time they categorically condemn low carb due to what is basically a theoretical basis. So instead of recommending a diet that has no short-term problems and no known (yet anyway) long-term problems, they instead opt for a drug with... what? Unknown long-term problems! And probably definite short-term ones as well. What a wacked out world we live in!
Posted by: Levi Wallach | June 16, 2005 at 04:59 PM