COMMENT FROM DIABETIC EDUCATOR RHONDA L. RICHARDSON STRANGE

• . If you read a few medical journals or attend seminars on Diabetes, you will understand this is the perfect way of eating . High triglycerides you are seeing in patients are coming from 2 sources, one is carbohydrates, the second is trans fats. Neither are consumed when eating LCHF diet. Increasing healthy dietary fats, while elliminating carbohydrates, is very healthy! Once you go low carb enough, you have to replace the calories lost. You can't add proteins, because; too much protein converts to glycogen and burns like carbohydrates. Of the 3 nutrients only fats and proteins are essential and of those, the only one that has no affect on blood sugars are fats. The 80's and 90's and low fat diets are over with. They should never have been promoted. They did nothing but sky rocket numbers of people with Diabetes and heart disease, because the low fat diets had NO research behind them and were mostly a way to promote cheaper foods like breads, grains and pasta for the US Dept of Ag, for those on lower incomes and for manufacturers who wanted to add HFCS to foods. Over and over we see publications with new research, explaining how they had it wrong. Dietary fats are not bad! If you read material written by well known physicians, who specialize in Diabetes, you know, they also promote this way of eating. Teaching Diabetics, I have seen nothing bad from increasing fats, just the opposite. I work with patients who have lower blood sugars, better labs, and just better overall health from following this WOE. I have done this diet myself for 5 years and my health is better than anytime in my life. I got off of all medications. The physicians I work with follow this way of eating! Things are changing with the research. It can be accessed on the net, as well as other sources. As an R N, I also know the term brittle diabetes is almost non existing, as it was long ago determined in most of those cases, the diabetics were not adhering to a very strict dietary regiment. Eating this way will prevent ulcers and amputations of the feet and more, as those who get much lower blood sugars by following a LCHF Diet are changing their lives. All the inflammation and other symptoms reduce, as the blood sugars go down! I have seen the improvements in patients I work with! As an R N, I will always keep updated to benefit the patients I work with and stay informed by all the information available to me!