As everyone involved in diabetes education knows, diet is a member of the trifecta (diet, exercise, medication) in the treatment of all types of diabetes. The treatment of type 1 diabetes before the discovery of insulin by Banting, Best, and McCleod was via the "starvation" diet, where very small amounts of carbohydrate was doled out to avoid hyperglycemia and prevent Diabetic Ketoacidosis and death. Over the years, the "ADA" diet was developed along with other dietary variations including...