dohboi wrote:Interesting, but basically a personal anecdote, which is of course next to useless to science.
He has helped thousand of patients directly and millions indirectly by his book. There are probably hundreds of millions of people who are following his dietary advises. The trouble with his approach is that most people can not give up carbs. For example he had a patient who liked apples so much that could not give up eating one for evening. Dr Bernstein said that it is not possible to control his blood sugar when he is going to eat that apple in the evening and eventually the patient leaved. He was honest about that you can not cut corners if you really want to suceed. It is also not a personal anecdote becose all the complications from diabetes are basically the same. He had those but he stopped them from developing worse or some of them he even reversed. He is and engineer and solved the problem like an engineer would do. He even used computer search for data in the 70ies.Imagine that. Many diabetics do not even measure their blood sugar. It is costly because the measuring strips are not cheap.