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> We need meaningful nutritional research, desperately, I am now wearing a constant glucose monitor and tried half a cup red lentil - semolina flour pasta. Should be OK, shouldn't it? My blood sugar jumped from below to 100 to above 140. My target is 120 and I am almost always below. Most often, well below. 140 is bad. I tried a "keto burrito". 135. I simply cut all starches and now I am good. All in all, ever since I am wearing my CGM I can attest almost all nutritional advice given to diabetic people at least does not apply to me and I suspect I am not alone. I am not surprised. At all. First of all, the entire science reeks because it's not genetics based. We know (although, do we? I no longer trust anything) at least lactose intolerance is caused by a gene. Is it too far fetched to say reaction to other foods could also be varied based on genetics? Second, there is a huge problem with scientific research itself. There are books and how to say, counter-research done on this. Basically, you take a grant, run a study and then produce some result, if your end result is nothing which is ought to be default, well that doesn't look good. So you produce some result... even if it's cherry picked data. And then some statisticians a decade later get hold of the raw data and prove you have found nothing. It happens all the time. Third, this is especially a problem with drugs but can happen with nutrition research too. Surely you have seen the ads where they are looking for volunteers? Well, who do you think they are going to get? No one produces a study with the title "our study among people experiencing homelessness and abject poverty"... Anyways, I am vaccinated against covid. I hope this one is not botched. But nutritional advice? Nah. I refuse to talk to a nutritionist, I refuse to accept any advice, all of them are invalid -- for me. |