"Diabetes Education" or "How to kill yourself slowly while making insulin producers rich"

I recently took a Diabetes Education class meant to teach me how to get my blood sugars under control.
I had to fill out a "Sample Diet". which is an example of what I might eat in a day.  I should mention that a few months prior to my diagnosis I made the decision to cut grain out of my diet, especially wheat while starting an exercise regimen.  It took a really long time but I managed to lose about 25 lbs.

Anyway, the nurse doing the education class looked at my example diet and said "well I can tell you you aren't eating enough carbohydrates".
This confused me and as I looked at the book she gave me printed by the American Diabetes Association, I was dumbfounded by all the grain foods and sugar foods they listed there.  WHHAAAAAT?
I told her I would not eat grains because the elimination of grains lifted the perpetual fog in my head along with a bunch of other crappy health symptoms I had been having.
She told me I should be eating 210 grams of carbohydrates per day...and that doesn't include the carbs in Milk, Cheese or non starchy vegetables!!!   (Carbohydrates in non-starchy vegetables apparently don't count.)
Why don't I just put a pistol in my mouth and be done with it?  I was stunned!  It would normally take me more than four days to eat that many carbohydrates...which I only figured out when I thought about what I really eat in a given day and started a new food journal.  I was too dumbfounded to even argue, or maybe I was just being polite...either way, I needed to digest the information, which was probably about a 75 on the Glycemic Index...
Well I tried it for a day, I could only make myself consume about 100 carbs including the carbs in some brussel sprouts (which I really wasn't supposed to count).... and the next morning my fasting blood sugar was so high I almost had a heart attack....or went into some kind of sugar coma!

I think the ADA needs to learn about the Glycemic Index and educate people based on that.  Why would they recommend these blood sugar spiking foods to people with insulin resistance and damaged pancreas'?  Pharmaceutical company lobbyists??  I mean how many people fall for this?
How is it that the NURSE believed this garbage, I mean she was smart enough to get her RN!  How could she be so duped!

So lets talk about the glycemic  index.
Here is the definition of the GI according to http://www.glycemicindex.com
The glycemic index (GI) is a ranking of carbohydrates on a scale from 0 to 100 according to the extent to which they raise blood sugar levels after eating.

With pure glucose being at 100, anything below 50 is considered to be in the healthy range:
My educator was recommending, grains, peas, corn, corn tortillas, beans and white potatoes to me to make sure I got all my 210 carbs in.
Lets look at the GI and see how solid that advice is.

Recommended foods:
GI for Baked potatoes:   85
GI for Whole Wheat Bread: 71
GI for Corn Flakes: 93
Cream of Wheat: 74
Grape Nuts: 75
Corn Tortilla: 52
Corn on the cob: 60
Peas: 51
Rice:  White: 89  Brown: 50

Here are the GI numbers for what I usually eat:
eggs: 0
Low fat cheese: 0
low fat plain yogurt: 14
Butter: 0
Blueberries: 53
Raspberries: Little to no carbohydrate and low GI ( all I could find)
Grilled Chicken:  0
Ground Beef: 0
Almonds: 0
Pecans: 0
Walnuts: 0
Cashews: 22
Turkey: 0
Ham: 0
Fish: 0
Bacon: 0
Tomato: 38
Broccoli: 10
Spinach: <10
Bananas: 52
Silk Almond Milk: 30
Coconut milk: 40

The GI for a Snickers bar is 55:
You are better off eating a Snickers bar than eating any of the following:
Baked potato
Wheat bread
Corn Flakes
Cream of Wheat
White rice
Grape nuts
Corn on the cob

Would you tell someone with diabetes they should eat a snickers bar to help control their blood sugar??
Of course NOT!!  Then why would they tell me (and the other diabetics taking their "Education class") to eat any of the things I listed above which were recommended to me?