This post will be discussing the “contributions” BigPharma paid the American Diabetes Association… $19 million in 2008. That’s the last year I can find the data. New friends may not be aware of this… if not YOU SHOULD BE SHOCKED.
- this is unethical and immoral
- but 2012 was even worse, $31 million reasons.
This MUST violate some law… or at least ethical practice. Read this post and tell me you do NOT agree.
Keep in mind:
1) The American Diabetes Ass. (ADA) supports a meal plan that REQUIRES it’s diabetic adherents to take increasing amounts of drugs … and insulin.
2) PepsiCo, Big Pharma, Monsanto and The Sugar Lobby all pay and raise money for the American Ass. Of Diabetes Educators (AADE). The AADE is the national organization for Certified Diabetes Educators…. which also promotes the same high carb, drug inducing meal plan.
So the next time you are eating a high carb meal from one of those high carb “diabetic friendly” cookbooks…. and eating the meal requires you to take a Diabetic Drug … or a statin or a Hypertension drug etc….
Nothing’s Free
Just remember this… the company probably could charge you less if they weren’t “donating” money to the American Diabetes Educators (AADE) , the American Diabetes Association (ADA), etc, etc.
So you’re being charged higher prices so the drug companies (BigPharma) can afford to payoff the ADA & AADE.
Summary:
The ADA & AADE is rewarded for pushing a high carb meal plan because the meal plan:
1) Creates more diabetics.
2) Requires existing diabetics to take more drugs.
Everyone including the medical ‘industry’ makes out like bandits…. literally.
Everyone except diabetics and those who suffer from inflammatory diseases.
Almost forgot, here are the Drug Companies and how much they ‘gave’ to American Diabetes Association in 2008.
Here is the link to the actual page on the ADA website… if you do not believe me. :)
http://www.diabetes.org/assets/pdfs/2008-revenues-received-by-ada.pdf
Here is my Diabetes Warrior Info:
My Diabetes Meal Plan ( a true diabetes diet, not like most of those promoted by American Diabetes Association)
Wow that is truly shocking. Agencies like the ADA also have a truly powerful influence on what other health institutes, from other countries, recommend.
This is a total disgrace. I wonder if anything similar goes on in the UK. I am not diabetic but I do follow a low carb diet and it really gets on my nerves how so many people think that fat is the culprit while they continue to gorge themselves on sugar. You are doing some wonderful stuff on this website!
This is a total disgrace. I wonder if anything similar goes on in the UK. I am not diabetic but I do follow a low carb diet and it really gets on my nerves how so many people think that fat is the culprit while they continue to gorge themselves on sugar. You are doing some wonderful stuff on this website!
From the bottom of my heart… Thank you for the encouraging words Jill. :)
The ADA is a sick joke. Big Pharma staffs it with hand picked crazies who do their bidding without even realising it! I’ve seen the process. The Pharmaceutical reps trawl the medical community for doctors who agree with their views and treatments, then start employing them for conferences. Next they start ghost writing books for them to make them into authors, then they fund research for them to make them into eminent specialists. From there they pick their favourite puppet doctors to run the various institutes that they pay for in Diabetes, Cancer , you name it. If you look at the funding for all of these organisations, its all big pharma. And their role – to promote the sale of medication and pharma profits. The system is not under the control of individuals, but is the result of financial pressure.
GREAT article! We have known it, and knew the numbers must be big, but never seen it cut, cold and dry like this. Thank you!
Thank you for the thanks. :) … this is ‘just’ Big Pharma … we know PepsiCo and other ‘junk’ food purveyors donate large sums of money to both the American Diabetes Ass as well as the American Dietitian Ass. and the American Ass. of Diabetes Educators. So SO SAD! :(
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