tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12333976.post5520656336643267363..comments2024-02-18T15:43:14.717-05:00Comments on Moved to LivinLaVidaLowCarb.com/Blog: Tell The American Diabetes Association YOUR Low-Carb Diabetes Success StoryJimmy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08590225257991702645noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12333976.post-43704423176441839212008-03-15T20:06:00.000-04:002008-03-15T20:06:00.000-04:00Well said, Dr. Feinman.Well said, Dr. Feinman.Jimmy Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08590225257991702645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12333976.post-73926546453179188542008-03-15T20:03:00.000-04:002008-03-15T20:03:00.000-04:00Let me follow up on Jimmy's column. I think it is ...Let me follow up on Jimmy's column. I think it is reasonable to tell your story to the ADA and especially to congress. Among other things, the NIH bases its guidelines on the ADA. In writing your message, it is important to be constructive and polite. Do not assume that any particular person is resistant to your ideas or disbelieves experience. Medical science is a vast business and nobody can keep up on everything. Many who follow the party line do so because they have no other information. In any case, your personal experience will carry a lot of weight. There is, however, power in numbers and to actually get a dispassionate hearing of all sides of the story, we need to have a common voice. The Metabolism Society is trying to provide a common meeting ground for information and discussion. While we are not an advocacy group and not specifically proponents of la vida low-carb we certainly see it as one of the most pressing areas in which new information must be brought out and old information evaluated. We need you to join (nmsociety.org), not just for your donation which supports several activities (we have only one paid employee supported by a generous private contributor) but so that we can say that we have X number of members when we approach people with influence. <BR/><BR/>One example of our use of the money: I am the editor of Nutrition & Metabolism which is an open access journal, that is, it is free without subscription. Research articles on low-carb can get a fair hearing which they may not get at other journals -- we are sometimes harder on such articles because we know the field but they are judged without bias. Our major mission however is to tie the results in low carb, whatever they are, to the more sophisticated areas of metabolism and to do this we need to invite submissions from experts in other fields. The flip side of open access, however, is that authors pay in that model and it is difficult to accomplish our goal without the leverage to offer to pay the author's fee ourself -- this is currently $ 800 a paper. In the end, most of this must come from grants, but your membership is a big help. <BR/><BR/>Also, when you write to the ADA or congress, you can send me or Lauri a copy at lauricags@gmail.com or rfeinman@downstate.edu.<BR/><BR/>We are near the tipping point at bringing higher levels of science to nutrition.<BR/><BR/>Richard Feinman<BR/>Professor of Biochemistry<BR/>Director, Metabolism Society.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04273659220450298271noreply@blogger.com