Metabolism Society Petition - Make Your Voice Heard

I received this email a few days ago asking to have my readers sign a petition to urge the NIH to acknowledge the existing science and fund more research by the experts who have experience with carbohydrate restriction as a means of treatment for diabetes. If you're inclined to sign the petition just click the link below.

(I bet this will be on EVERY low carb blog on the internet. They likely mailed everybody).

Metabolism Society
You Are Making A Difference!

We appreciate your dedication to educating people on the benefits of low carb living, we acknowledge your accomplishments and we thank you.
The Metabolism Society requests your assistance.
Biomedical science needs your help. The public needs your help.

Please ask your readers to sign this petition.

The NIH must acknowledge the existing science and fund more research by the experts who have experience with carbohydrate restriction as a means of treatment for diabetes.

June 12, 2008

New England Journal of Medicine published the ACCORD study results. "We investigated whether intensive therapy to target normal glycated hemoglobin levels would reduce cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes" (intensive therapy meant intensive drug therapy).

Conclusion:
"As compared with standard therapy, the use of intensive therapy to target normal glycated hemoglobin levels for 3.5 years increased mortality and did not significantly reduce major cardiovascular events. These findings identify a previously unrecognized harm of intensive glucose lowering in high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes."

An elementary understanding of science lets one recognize that it is likely the treatment (intensive drug therapy) that has the (unrecognized?) harm. A substantial background of studies shows that not reducing glycated hemoglobin is a health risk.
It is the absence of any consideration of dietary carbohydrate restriction, the most safe and effective method of improving glycemic control that is so objectionable.

Scientists are stymied. Fighting with the NIH is not simple, generally not a career builder, and the number of people involved in this trial is in the hundreds. Only the public can help. We need your help in reaching them.

Please ask your readers to contribute by signing this petition.


Thank you.

Richard Feinman
Professor of Biochemistry
Founder, Metabolism Society
www.nmsociety.org
Nutrition & Metabolism Society
424 E. 73rd Street, #1RW
New York, New York 10021