CNN has a report out about doctors and dieticians slamming low carb diets. I wonder what they expect the diabetic to do? One thing that I have always wondered about is why the old folks, who were born and raised before grocery stores and such, live so long? My Dad will be 92 this year. He was raised on the farm. Their main food was meat. They ate a lot of pork, chicken, eggs, butter, fish, whole milk, and wild game. They fried foods in lard. They grew corn and ground it for meal to make bread.They smoked and salted their meat. They grew vegetables and fruit and canned a lot. They never heard of a grocery store. There were no fast food places or health food stores. They knew nothing about vitamin pills. My Dad and his brothers and sisters are still living. None of them has had a heart attack or stroke. I know lots of old people who were raised that way with no ill effects. If high pro was so bad, then these old people should be gone. I inherited diabetes from my mother who was raised the same as Dad. She lived to almost eighty and died of cancer. As far as I know my parents never ate low fat and never had any problems. On the other hand I know people who follow low fat diets and have had strokes and heart attacks in spite of all their low fat diets. Low carb has helped keep my BS under control. My last HA1C was 6.3 and my fasting BS was 119. That's a great improvement over my former FBS's which were sometimes over 300 and former HA1C's have been over 10. Fortunately, the food police can't stop me from a low carb diet.

I've had similiar experience with low carb diets and have concluded that the problem in the media is simply that low carb is not politically correct. I do know that I prefer to have my 5.9 HA1C which came back today than be "in". So take heed and don't talk too loudly or you'll probably have your posting priveleges restricted and your medication altered to include something to make you more compliant. (lol)