Last week I attended a diabetic education course, and by the end I was almost brainwashed into thinking that a "low fat" diet was the way to go to control your diabetes.

Throughout the whole course the educators (a diabetic nurse, and a dieticion)preached to everyone the only way to keep your blood sugars under control, and preventing complications, was to restrict your intake of fat.

By the end of it al I was totally discusted with the whole thing. When I brought up the subject of the Atkin's, and other protein diets, they said a few words on how" it can control your sugars, but all that protein wil damage your kidneys, and all that fat will raise your cholesterol", they would not have any discussion on it at all.

So in retrospective, they actually agreed with me a LC diet can control your blood sugars. But I guess they were brainwashed too, into thinking that all that fat must be bad for you. So they continue to push a high-carb, low fat diet, with lots of meds, to keep diabetics sick, and the drug companies rich.......(just a thought)

With my own experience being a diabetic, on the conventional diet, I was always hungry, gaining weight, tired, and on a few different kinds of meds. Since on the Atkin's diet, I'm off all my meds but glucophage, full of energy, and feeling great.