In alt.support.diabetes L. Conrad wrote:

: That's why I am asking for information from the horse's mouths so to speak.
: I was impressed by my BIL's continued good health on a low carb diet for all
: these many years. He was the one who peaked my interest in looking into diet
: and diabetes where my other friends from church with the disease were
: concerned.


I woudl be interested to know just how low a carb diet your BIL eats.
Many of us here find that moderate carbs, in the vicinity of less than 12-
or less than 100 a day works for us. Very few, indeed, look at a 30 carb
gram a day diet as our preference or very desireable as a life-long way of
eating. Some seem to have more trouble dealing with carbs than others and
some dont' like taking meds to such a degree that they may well try this
kind of very low carb diet.

Certainly, in dealing with your friends, this kind of suggestion would not
be welcome, as it is a very restrictive regemin that would be very hard to
follow for most of us here for more than 2 weeks or so and particularly
for people who are not used to limiting themselves. Probably, your best
bet with people who are that resistnt to advice as your friends seem to
be(not fllowing doctors' advice, etc) might be finding some real scary
statistics on diabetes complications like blindness, amupation, heart
attack and stroke and total kidney failure. Then you can talk about th
possibility of avoiding these by diet adn exercise,. just getting these
folks to avoid the white starches, bread, pasta, rice, etc, would be a
good start. I don't have a great deal of hope that they will listen to
you or even our responses, but it is very nice for you to want to be a
good friend and try.

Wendy