So, I just came back from a conference on Primary Care. A nationally recognized cardiac surgeon spoke about the new PCSK9 drugs that lower cholesterol down to 0.3mmol/L. WOW! He had all these studies of people cholesterol lowering benefited and how lower is the way the go. It is scary as a health care professional when you have all these guidelines to follow and God forbid, if a heart attack happened and you were called out on your dietary advise of promoting a high fat diet, you’d probably lose your licence to practice. I also listened to the latest diabetes guidelines update, and the question was asked whether a low carb or keto diet was advisable. The speaker actually acknowledged that it was diet if it helps the patient to lose weight, get the HBA1C down and lowers the cholesterol, and it’s sustainable, then anything goes. Shocked the heck out of me. Otherwise, if people don’t want to change their ways, it’s pills, medications and insulin for them!! But that is the way of medicine, pharmacotherapy, surgery and radiation is the only mainstay of treatments. Changing things seems like a daunting task!! Go Dr. Jason Fung, Ivor Cummins, Dr. Gerber etc.!!
Why are doctors so ill informed about Ketosis?
Just got BC/BS’s latest diabetes pamphlet (my husband has T2D). As usual, the grave and sage advice is a diet including fruits, whole-grain carbs (1/4 of your dinner plate should be whole-grains and starches, I guess they feel your pancreas needs a good workout), fat free and low fat dairy, and advises cutting down on saturated fat. They also have a salad recipe with strawberries that includes a tablespoon of honey in the dressing just in case there weren’t enough carbs there already. This is from the people who have to pay out more money as more people develop diabetes. 
Follow the money? In this case, follow the morons is more like it. 1984 called, they want their diet advice back.
Oh, and maybe someone should send this link to Dr. Barry.
Perhaps it varies by meter. Nova Max has it on the jar. Safe is 0.0 to 0.6, Elevated it 0.6 to 1.5. Call a doctor while you still can is 1.5 to 8.0. I tested as 1.1 last time I looked.
Ancel Keys (“Mr. Cholesterol”) The dietician who promoted the virtues of the Mediterranean diet - Obituaries: “…As the identifier and promoter of the , Dr. Ancel Keys followed his own eating advice, even to the point of living part time in Italy. But shortly before his death at 100, when asked if he attributed his longevity to the diet Keys, ever the scientist, replied: “Very likely, but no proof.” …” “…He remained highly active, walking, swimming and continuing his research at home in Minneapolis, but suffered strokes and a broken hip in his final years. …”
Hmmm? “No proof?” Trying to wrap my head around that one? I would speculate that the reason for his longevity is from phyto-chemical-anti-oxidants?
Possibly not enough good fats in diet = no Vitamin K is absorbed and too many sugar carbs from grains (milling time-to-baking-time-to ingestion-time; germ goes rancid or oxidizes?), starches and maybe varying degrees of ingestion of refined or natural sugars and a shift away from whole-foods?
What Every Doctor Should Know About Ancel Key’s Experiments