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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtkinsMo" data-source="post: 1245105" data-attributes="member: 104933">While ever virtually all medical research is funded or conducted by pharmaceutical companies, there will never be large scale research into methods that reduce the requirement for medication.  Following Dr Bernstein's approach every diabetic would require less insulin, lower sales for pharmaceutical companies, lower profits.  Who exactly would fund this research?Dr Bernstein is an inspirational man and his honesty and integrity shine through.  At his age, he cannot still 'need' to be working, purely for financial gain.  I listen to his webinars often and he is a genuine, caring and committed individual.   A very low carbohydrate diet can be very enjoyable and satisfying, you just need to work at it.Even if you do not want to go to the extremes of the tight control that he achieves and the discipline that he encourages, his 'Law of Small Numbers' makes perfect sense, as he puts it, industrial quantities of insulin are impossible to predict and control.  My father was diagnosed in the late thirties, I was born in the early 50s and I was definitely brought up in a low carb / controlled carb household, I just didn't recognise it as such at the time.  Strict carb restriction was the norm for diabetics before the guidelines changes towards whole grain etc.  I remember my father would have none of it when his diabetic clinic told him he should have umpteen servings of carbohydrate a day.We have a few courageous doctors, willing to challenge the status quo, Bernstein is one of them, along with Noakes, Mulhotra, Unwin and Kendrick.  We should not underestimate their endeavours.</blockquote>

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