Thanks for posting the link but I am so upset after reading it. Advice that kills people is so wrong when it is medically known to be false advice.

I often have wondered why I never became a type 2 diabetic. It may have been when doing Amway 20 years ago I learned about fish oil and have been on it heavy all of these years.

webmd.com/diabetes/news/20130522/fish-oil-pills-might-cut-diabetes-risk-researchers-say

The doctors wanted me in my weaken state to start Enbrel injections for pain manage in late 2014 to knock down my immune system even more. Something inside my head said NO and that I could do it by going off of sugars and grains.

After failing for two months to taper off of sugars and grains I left them cold turkey first of Oct 2014 and in 30 days my 40 years of high pain levels were and still are under good control by diet only.

I was doing LCHF before I had even heard of the term Low Carb High Fat then found MFP.

My weight has decreased and my health markers are greatly improved and I am totally free from any Rx Meds. I am not saying this will work for others but as far I have experienced or read there is no health risks from cutting out sugars and grains as long as you get enough protein and fat to meet one's daily requirements.

I do not give advice about Rx Med's because I do not practice medicine but I do know some people who would die soon without their Rx Med's. Rx Med's can be like a double edge sword.

LCHF is not a cure all for all people. I know so far LCHF has successfully cured my known health concerns but I still go for my annual physical and lab work.

I was also going to say, this stupid advice exists because of the belief that carbs are necessary. I mean absolutely necessary. That's what pretty much everyone believes, even medical professionals! And to make it worse, if they have any knowledge of ketones at all, it is only in the context of diabetic Ketoacidosis, so not only do they not consider it a viable option, they actually think you'll get seriously sick and possibly die! And more than that, if they happen to have an understanding of nutritional ketosis and realize you won't get sick and die, they believe you couldn't possibly make it a lifestyle!
There are soooooooooo many hurdles to jump to get to a point of acceptance for this woe. And that doesn't even consider all the "but fat is bad" bull crap!

I think medicine practiced currently by MD's today is still based more on yesterday's myths from med school days than based on known science of today.

@Sunny_Bunny_ thanks for your comment about my recovering health story.

@GaleHawkins your story is intriguing to me, too. (Off-topic since I don't have diabetes, though I'm at risk for it and IR.) My MS meds suppress my immune system, and I hate that, but when I was off MS meds for 14 months while TTC, pregnant and a month of nursing, I got four new brain lesions, so I've been hesitant to go off them. Part of me is wondering now how LCHF is affecting my MS and if maybe dietary changes really could be effective enough on their own.

I got frustrated early on with all the conflicting dietary recommendations for MS that claimed to cure the disease without a lot of hard evidence... I'm intrigued by the Wahls Diet though (a type of paleo), and it *is* in clinical trials now. I'm not exactly following it now but having been keto for a while now, it doesn't seem as extreme to me as it did before. I need to research some more ...

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I read about Dr. Terry Wahls. Amazing story.

It is. I read her book last year.