Here's the thing:

In the 1970's, I was being raised by my diabetic grandparents.

I went to the meetings. I heard ALL the ADA stuff. What they were preaching then was diet and exercise were the best treatment. They went into great detail on how diabetes works, and how bad starches & sugars of any kind are for your body. (My grandparents refused to give up their bread & potatoes, and so remained unhealthy and out of control).

Then I grew up.

In 2004, I was pregnant with my son, and -- following conventional wisdom and & lacking a support-group to feed me information -- I went OFF my strict Atkins for the baby's sake... and started having health problems. Talked to my OB, and he put me on the gestational diabetes plan....


...And I couldn't understand it. It was all the foods that -- in my memory -- the ADA had warned diabetics against eating.