>The first time I read about a low-carbohydrate eating plan, I immediately >thought of my aunt. She is 34 and has MS I have been trying to share url's, references, and other non-intrusive bits of lo-carb info with a woman with moderately sever MS. All it has gotten me is an uncomfortqble feeling that my information resources are not welcome. So I don't give them anymore. It is her life, and she is grown up. Reasons for rejecting this information could be all over the lot. From not liking the way I present it, or thinking that I am just a kook, faddist, or whatever, to being very authoritarian in personality structure, and feeling that her doctor must know all the "respectable" information there is to know about her condition. Other possibilities are that there are subtle relationship issues involving the person one hopes to give the information to, and other important people in her life. My diabetic father refused any input from me, whether about low carb, vitamins or anything else. I knew a man who was quite obviously dying from some unknown neural disease, leading to progressive weakness and loss of function throughout his entire body. HIs University doctors really had nothing for him, no real hope. Never-the-less, he was not interested in any "oddball " dietary or alternative medical ideas. He died, completely paralyzed. I don't want to suggest that low- carb or anything else would necessarily helped, but I really couldn't see what he had to lose. Maybe the comfortable feeling thet he remained orthodox, not weird or hippy or new age or anything uncomfortable. Also, when an illness gets quite far down the road, there can be a drive for closure, on the part of the patient and his or her caretakers. You are younger than me, so you may be able to go right ahead making suggestion. For me, I look for some sign of interst before going on. Ciao - Michael