Question: I have been a diabetic since 4 years now. Best part is I do not take drugs -- no not even MF -- as I manage my diabetes through LCHF diet. All my LIPID/CARDIAC/KFT/LFT/Sugar Control/A1C/BP/apoA1/B are just too fine to scare me away from taking a fat loaded diet (but restricting carbs to 20%). In fact my TG and LDL have dropped after LCHF. LCHF diet is a boon for diabetics and there are many diabetics living this life on http://www.forums.dlife.in/

So, why is medical establishment still focused on blaming saturated fat (Just because Ancel Keys fabricated a lousy study 6 decades back to enable McGroven to push grains) when huge number of studies have proved it to be innocent and good for health. It is the CARBS that kill. Would need a unbiased answer and not just what ADA preaches as ADA is doing nothing but defending the interests of the DRUG industry.

Don't you think that entire diabetes care is biased in favor of drug industry and medicare establishment rather than the diabetic?

Isn't PUFA one of the wost inflammatory component in diet? All these n-6 PUFA loaded vegetable oils -- so called heart healthy oils -- are the biggest culprit and recently it has been proved that in Sydney Diet Heart study the whole study back then was fudged (by secretly trashing data which did not fit the end result which perhaps was decided ell before the study started) to favor the vegetable oil industry:

http://www.forums.dlife.in/threads/sydney-diet-heart-study-a-revisit-shows-saturated-fat-better-than-pufa-loaded-vegetable-oils.521/

and it has been proved again and again that SFA is not dangerous :
http://www.forums.dlife.in/threads/saturated-fat-doesnt-cause-cardio-vascular-or-coronary-heart-disease.7/

http://www.forums.dlife.in/threads/doubling-saturated-fat-in-diet-does-not-increase-saturated-fat-in-blood.1137/

http://www.forums.dlife.in/threads/low-carb-high-fat-diet-is-beneficial-for-diabetics-is-it-official.5/

and high carb low fat diet + exercise study proves that it does nothing to prevent CVD/CHD in case of diabetics on ADA -- High Carb Low Fat -- diet
http://www.forums.dlife.in/threads/high-carb-diet-experiment-fails-on-type-2-diabetics.17/

VCO (virgin coconut oil) is MCT and yet experts group it with LCT and put the blame on SFA, knowing very well that MCT's aren't processed the same way as LCT's.

BTW, I am an engineer from IIT by profession so my inquisitiveness knows no bounds and this is one reason why i rejected what ADA/AMA/AHA preaches.

Your inputs on above would be appreciated and maybe one more follow up and I consider this thread as accepted.

Ok. But we still do not agree on something that has been lied upon year after year by a lousy and flawed study of Ancel Keys six decades back where he fudged by cherry picking data of just 7 and rejected 15 odd countries.

Saturated Fat improves HDL, makes LDL fluffy, reduces TG which reduces the notorious VLDL. It's the bread (brown/white/multigrain doesn't matter as all have 70% + carbs) with butter that causes the damage and not butter alone, necuse it is the CARBS that kick up TG by and large. Masai tribe survived only on animal fat and milk and they had the best lipids as compared to Americans or population that consumes so called "Balanced Diet". Today's milk is not even a good dog food as it is low fat.

So shouldn't diabetics be concerned more about TG/HDL ratio, apoB, apoA1, hsCRP, homocystein, sub LDL fractions as cardiac markers rather than plain TC number which has been proved to be just a number good for selling already over-prescribed class of drugs -- Statins? More than half (in a study of over 100,000 in-hospital patients) the persons who died of heart failures had normal cholesterol and Statins have been proved to be useless drug as a preventive medicine. It maybe ok for people with CVD/CHD but statins are prescribed indiscriminately.

WRT 20% Carbs +20% Proteins + 60% Fat (LCHF diet), with major coming from SFA, isn't it a better alternative than pushing MF, Sulphonylurea drugs that drives one to insulin shots finally? It's the 60% CARBS that cause uptick of TG (which is the fat in blood and not the butter or coconut oil that we eat) and TG is one of the worse thing to have on higher side.

We on LCHF maintain TG around 100 and diabetics on a ADA recommended -- so called balanced diet -- more often than not have TG to north of 200.

If I take just my case, had i gone by the so called "balanced and healthy diet" (as per ADA), I am sure I would be on 1000 mg MF at least and slowly driven to Sulphonyl urea drugs as higher TG == Higher Insulin resistance. So, my question is -- If we don't treat alcoholics by pushing more alcohol, why are we diabetics being forced to resort to maintain higher levels of insulin in blood? Insulin resistance gets worse everyday by that treatment. Insulin is a vaso-constrictor which means if we go by ADA's "Balanced Diet" we are sure to end up with high BP too which in tun leads to problems with kidney, ED etc.

My main grouse with entire regimen of handling diabetics is that we are forced to be "drug addicts" first rather than switch to something which has been globally proved (on all diabetes forums) to be the most effective way of dealing with diabetes. The researchers are also so heavily biased that they will spend millions (on HCLF + exercise study on diabetics they spent a cool $120 million for over 10 years and failed to come up with a result that they set out to hopefully achieve) but will not spend even a million on conducting trials with LCHF because this diet kills profits of pharma industry and entire medicare business.

Humans aren't designed to be consuming more than 150 gms carbs/day (diabetics still less), unless one is an athlete.

Don't you think that at least the young generation doctors in XXXXXXX should at least change the way diabetics are handled. If yes, what stops them? If no, then why?

Thanks!