I think I was never more shocked than when My MIL got remarried and her new DH loved to bake and can. The shocker for me was when they declared that he was now giving her insulin shots so that they could eat cakes, pies, jellies, beets canned with tons of sugar, ice cream etc.... But she was a grown woman so what could we say or do because he had his ways and it was not one that they wanted us to but-in about.

I'm sure that the doctors advise backed up this type of eating with the insulin, but seriously, it just didn't make sense to me.

My mother always checked her BS and never let this type of eating effect her life. She was a low carber for years and I think it served her well, healthwise.