pamela wrote:

One of the thoughts I enjoyed was something like the following. During a
discussion of carbohydrate intolerance this thought was expressed.

"Would you recommend that a person who is Gluten Intolerant be urged to
eat a diet containing Gluten so that they could enjoy the great health
benefits of a (drum roll) 'Balanced Diet' "?

Would you recommend that a person who is Carbohydrate Intolerant be
urged ............. (drum roll) 'Balanced Diet' ?

Folks often state that a balanced diet works the best. They don't
consider is that low fat is not balanced either. Many of us who have
lived in decades of pressure to go low fat high carb have ended up
reacting poorly to high carb foods because we ate too many of them for
too many years. Sure, if we had never been damaged by high carb foods a
balanced diet would probably work for us. But our situation is a bit
like a very mild version of diabetes. Now we're better off low carbing.
Would I recommend low carbing to a child? No more than I would
recommend low fatting to a child.