As they note in the article very briefly, it’s far easier to get people to adhere to medication protocols than it is to get them to change their diet. When I was (briefly) working as a personal trainer, getting people into the gym to work out regularly was already hard. Getting them to track what they put in their mouth every day was goddamn near impossible. People would pay $100/hr for someone to coach them through movement three times a week for a year, but wouldn’t keep a journal of what they were eating. And when I say that they wouldn’t track what they were eating, I mean that I couldn’t even get a single client–clients that all claimed they deeply wanted to lose weight and be healthy–to do something as simple as taking a photo of every single thing they ate or drank during a day.
People have an emotional connection to food, and being told things like, “hey, all this stuff that you really love, that you eat with your family and friends? you can’t ever have that again” is harder for people to accept than “you need to give yourself a $50 injection twice a day”.
Oh, and yeah, eating a healthy, truly low carb diet is expensive and difficult–most inexpensive sources of proteins are also high in carbs–but likely still less expensive than insulin.
As they note in the article very briefly, it’s far easier to get people to adhere to medication protocols than it is to get them to change their diet. When I was (briefly) working as a personal trainer, getting people into the gym to work out regularly was already hard. Getting them to track what they put in their mouth every day was goddamn near impossible. People would pay $100/hr for someone to coach them through movement three times a week for a year, but wouldn’t keep a journal of what they were eating. And when I say that they wouldn’t track what they were eating, I mean that I couldn’t even get a single client–clients that all claimed they deeply wanted to lose weight and be healthy–to do something as simple as taking a photo of every single thing they ate or drank during a day.
People have an emotional connection to food, and being told things like, “hey, all this stuff that you really love, that you eat with your family and friends? you can’t ever have that again” is harder for people to accept than “you need to give yourself a $50 injection twice a day”.
Oh, and yeah, eating a healthy, truly low carb diet is expensive and difficult–most inexpensive sources of proteins are also high in carbs–but likely still less expensive than insulin.