Bernstein has a way to manage, not cure diabetes. I enquired around here if anyone was familiar with Dr. Cousens and his book "There is a Cure for Diabetes"... which he oddly refrains from sharing in the book, instead giving an effective, though hyperextreme management system.
What I found interesting, actually is that his management system is actually pretty high carbohydrate. In fact, he even calls it 'high carbohydrate, low protein, medium fat'. His gimmick though? That you don't cook anything. It's an entirely raw, unrefined, vegan diet and it seems to work (according to the result graphs in the book anyway).
So go figure. Both management systems seem to work pretty well, neither will be required for certain people. Maybe it's worth taking on board things from both schools of thought.
I reckon the internet really does provide a placebo effect though. You find somehting on the internet, rahter than in everyday life, and it's this 'special little secret that they don't want you to know about' because if it got out, all the big corporations would stop making money. Unfortunately, more than 99% of it is going to be absolute BS and Dr Cousens is going to charge you £17.99 for his book, whether the system works for you or not.
Yes, it's great to get a second opinion, but when you start 'shopping' for an opinion that you agree with or that means you don't have to do X, Y or Z that you don't want to do, that's when you get taken for a ride. And I think it must be so easy for us to condemn doctors, who I'm sure work at least five times harder than anyone on this board. When we go to them, it's only our problems we care about and they're supposed to spend their entire life trying to cure us. When actually, they've got a queue of patients so long that they're going to be working two hours past their extremely long shift hours anyway. They do all this (and my friend is doing it just two weeks out of med-school) and we feel ok condemning them as uncaring, close-minded, self righteous idiots? Nah.
Diss the system, the management, the beaurocracy, that's all fine, that's where the problem is. But doctors, themselves, deserve as much patience as they have patients (sorry - awful pun!). And to say they can't cure anything is facetious at best. I spent last night in A and E with my fiancee who had odd shaped rashes around several insect bites (this is where the Lyme's disease comment came from - LOL). She was inspected, diagnosed and respected all throughout, before being given some anti-biotics to sort it out. A week from now she'll be cured.
We have diabetes; they can't cure that. That makes us angry. It doesn't make them incompetent - because nobody can cure us. Recently though, medical doctors discovered how to regrow insulin secreting cells. All we're waiting for now is a way to fix our autoimmune defect that caused the destruction of the cells in the first place. Then we're golden. Though I suspect some people won't be grateful. People prefer to be injured and vidicated than happy and content. A persecution complex gives people a feeling of righteousness and power. So the NHS and doctors persecute us with their uncaring, outmoded ideas. It's disgusting that they can't leave their mistaken assumptions behind. Why oh why don't they understand that it is in fact us, the injured party, who have all the answers to our own problems?
Or maybe I'm just a pessimist about human nature.
Anyway, that felt like a rant. I just want it on the record that never once have I felt let down by a doctor, or that they underperformed in their job. Maybe I'm just lucky. But seriously, whether you decide to follow their advice or not, doctors aren't out to kill us. Give them a break.
. When she was talking to my daughter she told her how frustrsting it was to see many patients following the standard advice and then being told they were "non compliant" because of high sugars. Daughter told her I was low carb and what my HBA1C was. Her reply was "I knew I was right. Why should diabetics run higher than non-diabetics" when there is as way to avoid this. I'm so sad that trainee's are still being told the plenty of complex carbs ****. I truly hope this girl decides to specialise in diabetes and can hold firm with her views. 
