{"id":51564,"date":"2020-01-31T10:52:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T15:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=51564"},"modified":"2020-01-31T10:52:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T15:52:20","slug":"american-diabetes-associations-ceo-talks-about-her-low-carb-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=51564","title":{"rendered":"American Diabetes Association’s CEO Talks About her Low Carb Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Diabetes Association CEO Tracey Brown has revealed her personal success with a low-carbohydrate diet in a new interview <\/a>\u00a0with the Sisters4Fitness Wellness Show.<\/p>\n

Declaring how seriously she takes the responsibility of being \u201cthe poster child of how to thrive while living with diabetes,\u201d Ms. Brown tells how reducing her carbohydrate intake has had such a profound and positive impact on her health.<\/p>\n

Remarkably, Ms. Brown has been able to discontinue her use of insulin<\/a>, has significantly reduced her use of prescription medication, and even predicts that she\u2019ll be able to drop her last medication by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

You read that right: the first CEO of the ADA with diabetes may be beating her own condition into remission!<\/p>\n

Along the way, Ms. Brown makes a persuasive case for carbohydrate restriction that goes well beyond mainstream recommendations to limit only sugars and highly processed foods:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty simple. Elevated blood sugars happen when you have sugars in your body and you don\u2019t have insulin to manage the sugars in your body\u2026 Carbohydrates turn into sugar. So I just try to get people to be a little aware of how many carbohydrates you\u2019re actually putting in your body. And carbohydrates come in many shapes and forms, right? Bread is a carbohydrate, pasta is a carbohydrate, actually, fruits \u2026 some fruits are high in carbohydrates.\u201d<\/p>\n

While she admits to enjoying French fries from time to time, she also tells us that she\u2019ll toss the bun of a fast food sandwich into the trash, that she has stopped eating rice, and happily explains how pleased she has been with discovering a \u201cwhole new palette\u201d of low-carb foods. She\u2019s also changed her exercise regimen and devoted herself to getting better sleep and reducing stress. Whatever the specifics of Ms. Brown\u2019s diet and lifestyle changes, they\u2019re obviously working.<\/p>\n

She also clearly hopes to inspire others along the way through her own successes: \u201cAnybody can do what I did, and I\u2019m not suffering for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

One can only hope that Ms. Brown\u2019s personal journey also inspires some of the experts that work for her organization and help set the guidelines<\/a> that are so influential in the medical establishment. While the ADA has recently made some baby steps towards an endorsement of low-carb diets<\/a>, the organization is typically cautious and slow-moving, and has long been associated with high-carb diet advice and recipes. But Ms. Brown is such a singular and dynamic figure that we\u2019ll allow ourselves a little optimism that great changes are now afoot at the ADA. She has already pledged to make the organization more agile and innovative<\/a>. I wouldn\u2019t bet against her.<\/p>\n

We recommend the entire two-part interview, which touches on many other topics beside her own inspirational story. She begins to address her own dietary philosophy at 21:00:<\/p>\n