I have PCOS, which is rooted in Insulin Resistance (so they say). Deciding what to eat is difficult, because I don't believe in eating meat. But, there are some people saying now that vegan diet is actually better for diabetics than meat, so I'm not giving up my beliefs - not that I intended to eat meat anyway.

In my opinion, medical science is presently not very good. They don't know much more than the basics, hence all the controversies. Facts can never be disputed, so that they dispute so much, tells us that they don't have facts, only speculation. And, that they support use of mercury in dentistry, shows how much they don't know. And that we can debate the issue here, because we've all read different things, shows they just don't know.

I therefore don't give much weight to any of the theories (no pun intended, lol), but work out how I feel after eating certain things. I understand others don't want to risk that, but for me it's the only way to go beause I don't think any of the so called experts really know what they are talking about. Some might, but which are they? We can only know by experience, I guess. Some say saturated fat is not good for us, others are obviously saying they are. It's typical of the medical community- they don't know so they guess.

As to vegetarians, I can imagine they would be fatter because they consume a lot of dairy to get protein. I put on weight when I ate a lot of dairy. Now I am mostly vegan (only eat ocasional eggs) I have lost a lot of weight. I know I don't get enough fat, so I need to remedy that.

I really need to draw myself up a good diet plan. I think I need to make it my priority. Getting protein can be a problem because nuts hurt my teeth, but I think I'll get a blender and that should help.

But I have totally lost faith in anything doctors or experts say because it becomes more apparent to me every day that they don't know much.