Glycemic Index is Goofy! -Roger Mason

Recently a well educated, successful businessman with an I. Q. over 130 was enthusiastically saying he read "Sugar Busters" and was on the glycemic index diet. He eats "lots of beef", but stays away from whole grains, especially corn. He really believes the glycemic index is scientifically valid. This column has explained repeatedly (please see the other articles) that the glycemic index is too stupid for words. The promoters such at Atkins, Somers, Heller, Eades, Crayhon, Mercola, and Challem eat lots of animal flesh, but tell you whole grains "raise your blood sugar", and "give you diabetes". Please read my book The Natural Diabetes Cure to see that whole grains prevent and CURE diabetes. The advocates claim all carbohydrates are the same, and refuse to use the term "whole grains". They love that useless term, "carbs". They actually tell you that simple sugars have the same biological effect on your insulin metabolism as whole grains do. Brain damage is the only way to explain such people. Notice they never, never, never have any valid studies to back this stupidity up.  
 
This column has continually shown you published clinical studies in international medical journals proving that whole grains prevent and even cure diabetes and insulin resistance (please see the other articles). Read my book The Natural Diabetes Cure

as one in three American children will now grow up to be diabetic. 
 
At the National Public Health Institute in Helsinki more than 4,300 real people were studied over a period of 10 years (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition vol. 77 in 2003). Now that is powerful, objective, and inarguable when you study thousands of men and women for a whole decade. They clearly found that people in Finland who ate the most whole grains had an almost two thirds drop in diabetes occurrence. To quote, "We found a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes in persons with high whole grain intake." Their conclusion was, "An inverse association between whole grain intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes was found."  What could be any clearer? 
 
This means the more whole grains you eat, THE LESS DIABETES YOU WILL GET. This is based on thousands of real men and women for a ten year period. This is absolute and incontrovertible proof that the glycemic index is a crock promoted by idiots. There are many other similar human studies on diabetes and other illnesses.  
 
Whole grains should be the basis of your diet every day. Whole grains are the very staff of life and have been for thousands of years now, since mankind stepped out of caves. A whole grain based diet can actually cure "incurable" illnesses such as cancer (read "My Beautiful Life" by Mina Dobic, or "Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy" by Dirk Benedict, or "Recalled by Life" by Anthony Satarillo). The typical American diet is almost completely devoid of whole grains, except for maybe an occasional bowl of oatmeal. We eat a mere 1% whole grains in America. It really can be very easy to use whole grain bread instead of white, whole wheat and brown rice pasta rather than white, whole grain breakfast cereals rather than refined, brown rice instead of white, eat oatmeal and hot whole wheat cereal for breakfast, eat more corn on the cob and polenta, put barley in your soups, and simple things like that. Whole grain foods TASTE much better than refined ones. Folks, the mental defectives who push the glycemic index and "Paleolithic diet" actually tell you that eating brown rice is the same as eating white sugar! They actually tell you with a straight face that eating a bowl of oatmeal is the same as eating a sugared donut!  Who wants to use a caveman as a poster boy for dietary health anyway? 
 
Why would otherwise intelligent people even listen to stupidity as this? There have actually been entire books written such as "Against the Grain" and “The No Grain Diet” (see the other articles) that tell you whole grains are "bad" for you, and we shouldn't be eating them. They say we should be eating a lot of pork, beef, lamb, chicken, turkey, duck, eggs, cheese and other such fatty foods that cause diabetes, coronary heart disease, and outright cancer. These high protein, high fat diets actually CAUSE cancer and other deadly diseases. Any author, newsletter writer, speaker, or other "health authority" who yaps about the value of the glycemic index is letting you know they are prima facie incompetent and have no idea what they're talking about.