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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 1649874" data-attributes="member: 372717">It seems pretty clear that low carbs are good for T2s, and probably for many people trying to lose weight.  However, that's not necessarily the case for T1s, who come in all shapes and sizes.  Indeed, many T1s start out underweight, and have to work to gain the kgs.  As a T1, there's no real reason why you can't eat the same things that you had before diagnosis (OK, with the proviso that binge eating probably isn't ideal and sweet fizzy drinks are really only a good idea when hypo. )  A hundred years ago T1s were starved of carbs to help them live long enough for a cure to be developed. They still died without insulin.  T1 is a very different disease to T2, and I wouldn't be telling a T1 to go very low carb just because they are diabetic.</blockquote>

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