Diabetics are affected disproportionately by diseases such as atherosclerosis. This has led to the long-standing myth that diabetics have abnormal lipid profiles because they eat more fat than nondiabetics. It was likewise thought that dietary fat caused all the long-term complications of diabetes. For many years, this was taken as gospel by most in the medical community. In truth, however, the high lipid profiles in many diabetics with uncontrolled blood sugar have nothing to do with the fat they consume.
Most diabetics consume very little fat they've been conditioned to fear it.
High lipid profiles are a symptom not of excess dietary fat, but of high blood sugars. Indeed, even in most nondiabetics, the consumption of fat has little if anything to do with their lipid profiles. On the other hand, high consumption of carbohydrate, as we will discuss shortly, can cause nondiabetics to develop some of the complications usually associated with diabetes. When I went onto a very low carbohydrate diet and did not restrict my fat, my lipids plummeted. Dare your physician.