[Randiman1]

Originally Posted by aquaryus

I told her that a low carb diet may not help a type 1 diabetic, but even a monkey knows that if you are type 2, the only thing that raises your sugar to diabetic levels is what you stuff in your face!

I am a type one diabetic and carbs effective everyone the same. The difference between types of diabetes is how your body treats the carbs. Type 1s don't produce any insulin, where as most type 2's don't produce enough (or have insulin resistance). Reducing carb intake reduces my amt of insulin that I take. I have to take 1 unit of insulin for every 10 grams of carb I, therefore when on Atkins my insulin doses go way down! Just saying that carbs effective everyone the same.

No offense but your friend sounds like she needs some educating! It seems like there will always be someone out there who thinks they know it all when you really just want to tell them how stupid they sound. You will come to find that there is a huge amount of ignorance surrounding Diabetes...especially type 1, however everybody thinks that they are an expert because all you have to do is "not eat sugar", or you only have the disease b/c you are over weight. Type 1s are usually not over weight (unlike me), but oh I could go on and on about this subject. I have had some really rude and stupid things said to me. I have decided to not tell most people about my disease. Sorry about the tangent, but like I said I could talk for hours about this.

I hope this didn't come across rude, b/c it is not intended that way. I am just trying to help! Hope it did!