Crazy diets with sacrifice, surgery, advice from American Diabetes Association (ADA), the medical profession, and the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Pyramid all suck with regard to permanent weight loss and/or reversing type 2 diabetes.

Ignorance has always been expensive for people when making right decisions, but now a double whammy is the norm for those who suffer with health issues like being overweight, being obese, and/or having type 2 diabetes.

There may be good intentions from a few, but in this capitalistic state of greed first, the help for help sake is far behind. Not only are overweight people being taken advantage of with the wrong kind of fear advice, but giving up one’s health in addition to one’s money is just plain wrong. Is there no decency left?

I solved my obese problem while solving my type 2 diabetes problem without following the advice I was given from my doctors, nor looking for the latest diet fad out there.

It was not easy, but it worked. How did I do it? Well, I figured out that most people, especially doctors, do not know or understand how food works and what it does. In addition, the truth is it did not take me long to understand that the Food Pyramid we trust, is completely wrong.

I had an advantage over most people who are looking for help, which were my blood tests. When I was researching how food reacts after I ate it, I could actually see what my body was doing with a simple blood test because I was a full-blown diabetic injecting myself five times a day.

In other words, when I ate a portion of a potato that had the same glycemic index of a cup of broccoli, I learned that my blood sugar (glucose) reading was ten times higher. At first, this did not make sense; that is until I learned about glycemic load.

Of course my aim was to learn how to stabilize my blood sugar (glucose) as a diabetic; but I also began losing weight. The funny thing was I began eating more than I had when I was gaining weight.

Here is the bottom line: eat correctly and exercise daily and within a fair amount of time, the weight loss benefits will be realized.