Reply #189: If your doctor is telling you you can't eat any carbs

[wickerwoman]

in any form whatsoever, your doctor is wrong and you should try to find another one. Both of my parents are diabetic, along with four or five of my aunts and uncles, my ex-boyfriend and several of my cousins. My dad has been living with diabetes for fifteen years. He can eat carbs, particularly if they are partnered with high fiber foods. He just has to adjust his insulin based on how much he eats.

I was replying to you saying that as a diabetic you can't eat pasta and beans (or things like sweet potatoes). You can. In fact, the combination is one of the best things you can eat- certainly better than mac & cheese, ramen noodles, (insert cheap processed carb-laden crap here).

I'm very sorry that you've been recently diagnosed. I know that it's an extremely scary and difficult adjustment to make, but knowing how to manage the disease in terms of what you can and can't eat makes a massive, massive difference in long-term quality of life. Either your doctor is misinforming you, or you have more research to do.

And the argument that restricting food stamp coverage of soda, etc. will create a hardship specifically for diabetics is an extremely weak one because the foods that would be restricted are specifically the foods that are worst for diabetics in the first place. There are plenty of other much stronger reasons for the government not to restrict food stamps. Why not stick to discussing those?