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Your avatar says you are type 1. Type 1 can't be secondary diabetes. What is your diabetes secondary to? Would you mind clarifying?
Personally, I can't really understand why a type 1 diabetic would be so emphatically distressed with the medical advice on carbs because the advice for type 1s is: eat however many carbs you want just so long as you are appropriate adjusting your insulin. So however many carbs you want to eat is entirely your personal choice. It's a little odd to be wanting or expecting medical advice on diet choices as a type 1 because the condition is not caused by, or managed by, diet. Any dietician input is usually on how to count carbs and how to anticipate the timing of the carb action, not whether or not to eat them.
It's secondary to pancreatitis, the doctor that diagnosed me said it is treat as type 1 but putting a label on it is not important to me. I am most certainly not distressed about advice on low carbing but was simply asking the question why so many people on this forum are. I don't worry about how many carbs I eat as I have a healthy diet