shardlow4 wrote
They say to have low fat yoghurts but most of them are high in sugars.
I'm a type 2, and was waiting to see what type 1s would say.
I'm aware that a number of type 2s adopt a low-carb, high(er) fat approach. This has required a rewiring of their brain about fat, and its dangers/benefits. It's required them finding out that a growing number of doctors/clinicians/cardiologists are saying that a high(er) fat diet is good for you, and that low-fat products, almost invariably sweetened to replace the fat content, are bad for you.
I would guess that 99.9% of doctors are still strongly anti-fat.
When I was diagnosed several months ago, I set out to find which way of eating would be best for me. A book by Dr Briffa led me to see that saturated fat is good for me, and that carbs are bad for me, unless greatly reduced in consumption.
So I eat full-fat Greek yoghurt, and have full-fat milk in my tea/coffee.
When diagnosed my GP wanted me to go from semi-skimmed to skimmed. As I said above I went the other way, to full-fat.
The low-fat seems to stem from a fear of raising cholesterol, and of increasing the risk of heart disease. Most low-carb experts disagree with this linking.
However I wouldn't recommend eating higher fat, whilst maintaining a 'normal' level of carbs in your son's diet.
As a nation (and elsewhere) we've been low-fatting and high-carbing for some decades now. The nation's health has been getting worse, and diabetes is growing to epidemic proportions. Go figure.
Geoff