Over Christmas met lots of relatives and friends, and friends of DH etc. that we see annually.
One friend of DH has had a horrendous couple of years healthwise and is being cared and closely monitored by diabetic team through local hospital. They have T2 diabetes and risk losing feet and eyesight if they don't get control of it. Feet are currently 'stable', eyesight is more complicated and a real cause for concern. Friend can't read, struggles to see tv (jumping about, wavy lines, blank spots).
I'm a low carb fan and have removed starches and sugars for eight years now, I'm used to not having them and have adapted pretty well. No-one else in my family does this, just me. However I don't talk about it publicly as I know it is a 'hot potato' to some and considered a fad and I do not want to come across as a diet zealot.
After chatting with DHs friend I got to learn that the diabetic team do not advocate for limiting carbs (i.e. cereal and banana for breakfast etc) and felt somewhat dismayed as I'd thought that, over the past 8 years, limiting carbs had become more mainstream in NHS dietary advice. I know of a Dr David Unwin, a GP in a practice in North Liverpool. who has practiced limiting carbs with his T2 partients for several years now quite successfully. It was his infographics that got me interested.
I can't stop thinking about DHs friend and wonder whether I should have mentioned low carb to help minimise diabetic complications, bearing in mind they have experienced health professionals in Type2 diabetes advising them. I am not a health professional at all. Low carb works for me, that's all I can say. My instinct was to keep my mouth shut on the matter unless he had asked me for advice. I'm just very, very sad about the whole thing 
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