Anyway, someone quoted extensively from Dr. McDougall's "Starch Solution" book and as I was reading the McDougall quote, I was just nodding my head, thinking of how McDougall's argument was common sense intertwined with scientific data.
But the response was simply this:
I tried eating a high starch diet and two hours after my meal, my blood sugar numbers were very high.
Reading these threads, one gets the sense that people are struggling with the low-carb diet. They try upping the fat or upping the protein or even going full bore ketogenic, but they can't seem to get a handle on their blood sugar numbers. One gets the sense that many of the participants in the forum have been at this for years.
Yet, because a high starch diet can't magically fix a type 2 diabetic within two hours of eating a single high starch meal, a high carb diet can't be considered anything less than pure crazy pants.
It seems that the same desire for instant gratification that seduces people into the Standard American Diet, and the resulting type 2 diabetes, also requires someone to see excellent blood sugar numbers from the very outset of a high starch diet.
Of course, one could try to teach someone a little about the physiology of insulin resistance and the fact that it might take several days of a high starch diet to notice improvements in the blood sugar numbers. But this would be dismissed with,
"This is going to cause me to go blind in the short term; I can't think long term."
The failure to understand the physiology behind type 2 diabetes and the failure to think beyond the next two hour post meal blood sugar test dooms people to a lifetime of frustration and perhaps amputation, if not kidney failure and heart disease.
Frustrating. So, I'll take a break from browsing the diabetes forums.