Seriously, the ADA is killing people. I know several people whose health has been wrecked, thanks to their absurd guidelines.

As for te sugar-diabetics thing … diabetics really *can’t* have sugar, at least not in the way that modern – er, I mean, post-modern America understands sugar.

If these were, say, the pioneer days and people were doing hard physical labor most of the day, the sugar would be burned up in no time flat and diabetes simply wouldn’t be an issue.

Alas, that’s not the case. Add to that, high fructose corn syrup and the sheer presence of sugar in the overwhelming majority of processed foods in America, and you end up with a diabetic who thinks he/she can have a little sugar, but is only adding that sugar on top of the mountains of sugar they’re already eating if they eat a typical American diet.

Plus they likely are doing nothing to burn that sugar up.

One of the best arguments there is, tho, for Americans to turn to their own kitchens and only eat in restaurants that are scrupulously honest about their ingredients!

The guidelines stating that diabetics can eat sugar come from the American Diabetic Association. But the ADA diet has proven moserably ineffective, even harmful, for diabetics.