Brett, I think you need gain some real knowledge about diabetes before you start dishing dangerous or wrongful advice to diabetics.
'Overeating and using insulin to compensate the overeating or compensating periods of no activity is what causes weight gain'
Overrating does NOT cause weight gain. You could over eat chicken or lard an you will gain almost zero body fat. Having no activity in your life doesn't necessarily mean your going get fat. I know people who snack on carbs and exercise whole day yet they still add weight. I also know people who sit on their backs-sides and eat a low carb high fat diet and still shred a ton of weight.
Finally, to ask what his diet was pre-diabetic is completely irrelevant and unhelp. The questioner asked what diet their son should be on for loosing weight and presumingly normalising his blood sugars. - The answer is a low carb high fat diet.
Adam, sorry.. I think you are totally misinterpreting Bretts post.'and what is insulin mainly used for? Oh, carbs mainly' This sentence is completely untrue and implies that everyone eats a high carb diet aswell as complete ignorance that protein does raise blood sugar. I and my diabetic friend are both type 1's most of our insulin covers the protein portion of our meal. If I decided take out the protein out and eat just the veg I only need to inject about 1.5 units compared 9 units. So in my case I don't use insulin 'mainly' to cover my carbs.
'If they reduce their carb intake to a suitable amount for them therefore reduce their insulin , thats bad is it. ' Please re-read my post, I actual encouraged a low carb diet and small doses of insulin, this reflects really how much you misread not only my post but the original question.
'To add the op hasn't stated a typical days food their child has,' This is completely irrelevant question because the Poster hasn't asked for their sons diet plan to be scrutinised, the poster has made it quite clear that a diet needs to be suggested for his treatment- in others words which macro-nutrients (Carb, Protein, Fat) should make up for most of what he eats.
Of course your entitled to your own opinion, no one said you couldn't, but to give statements without proof really adds more to the confusion.
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