That's one of the biggest things that scares me about American healthcare. That plus the financial aspect of medical treatment. Remember this poor guy? We've had insulin available for 100 years & yet this happened:
Reports concerning a man who passed away shortly after starting a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for insulin were met with some skepticism online.
www.snopes.com
There is another avenue that led to his death, which is mainstream dietary advice for diabetics. It is rather contradictory that if someone is in danger of spiking his blood sugars, to advise them to continue eat foods that contain a giant wad of that sugar. Even with fiber and accessory vitamins...well the chemical reactions that occur in breaking down the sugar remain intact, but somewhat obstructed by the fiber. In summary, a whole grain or beans will still provide a plentiful load of glucose that the body cannot handle. One doesn't have to go full ketogenic diet, but any iteration of a low-carb diet will be better than being ended by ketoacidosis.
In actuality, if it's vitamin deficiency one wants to avoid, taking a fucking multivitamin will do pretty much the same as a "whole grain" with zero glucose to worry about.
Paying attention to your diet may help in managing type 1 diabetes. Learn how to control your blood sugar with the foods you eat.
www.health.com
You have articles like this being promulgated in 2021, where 6 starches a day are being recommended.
It's great to avoid a heart attack...even by dying another way before a heart attack can strike. /sarcasm
It's a given fact that insulin inhibits fat breakdown processes. Yet experts continue to advise insulin-stimulating foods to people who need to get fat broken down.
As someone who had cooked glutinous rice flour pancakes, the flour is more durable when table sugar is NOT added to the mix; the pancakes do not burn as easily. Put sugar into that "batter", and you better watch it because it wlll burn more easily.
As a type 1, Boyle did need insulin eventually as zero carb diets are basically impossible to comply with long term. But if a crisis is looming, the crisis diet would be eating zero GI foods like eggs until the funds can be raised.
The medical industry wants diabetics to exist because many diseases are caused by the damaging potency of glucose in excess. But at the same time, insurance companies want to make their buck to. To treat those diseases requires a fair bit of coin and are a huge money maker for the industry and the practitioners who paid time and money to go to med school.
Due to the general populace's "mindsets" and lack of serious understanding of deeper concepts used in nutrition, gurus and experts usually can exploit their ignorance to sell half-truths that fixes some things but not everything. If someone doesn't take one organic chemistry class, they are set up to not really understand what is going on with dietary substances. The experts "dumb down" the concepts to the point that the general populace can be misled. One example is "natural fruit sugar". Some book I'm not aware of obviously must have concocted that term, and exploiting the naturalistic fallacy, gets people to think sugars in fruit are somehow different from the sugars in say, sugar. In actuality, whatever benefits fruits bestow is mostly because of the vitamins, minerals, other compounds first and fiber second. Those things obstruct the sugars present in fruits.