Reasons I'll Stick: I'd rather have a heart attack!

Okay, for today's reason I'll stick, I'd like to propose a thought experiment. Let's suppose, just for a moment, that all the well researched, well-considered studies showing that a high-fat, low-carb diet isn't the danger that we've been told for the past 30 years or so are wrong. Let's suppose that, by eating a high-fat, low-carb diet I'm really taking my life into my hands and running a serious risk of dying from heart disease. I don't think that this is the case, but let's just say it is.

So, on the one hand, if all this low-fat hysteria is true, I have heart disease and death from a heart attack.

On the other hand, I have the consequences of not going on a low-carb diet.

• I know me, and I know that I've tried for 7 months now to control my diabetes the "ADA way" without any success whatsoever. If I can't do it now, when it's a relatively tame beast, what are the chances that I would be able to do so later when I inevitably become a full-blown insulin-dependent diabetic? I know me. I know what I can and can't do. My sister is a Type I diabetic from childhood, so I know what's involved, and I know that with my massive ADHD I simply can't do it. I can't control my diabetes the "ADA way". So I will have uncontrolled diabetes for the rest of my life, and all the consequences that come with it.
• Let's start with one consequence: blindness. I can't imagine any hell worse than not being able to read. I could do without TV, I could even do without pictures and sunsets, but take away my books (and my Bible!) and I'm not sure I'd want to live. Being read to is just not the same–it's too slow. Yes, I suppose I could learn Braille, but still too slow.
  
• How about another? Amputation. I read somewhere that a leg is amputated due to uncontrolled diabetes every six minutes in America. So I'm blind and in a wheelchair.
• How about another? Renal failure. I watched my grandfather-in-law hang on for 8 years on dialysis while his body disintegrated. Not. A. Life.
• And bear in mind that I feel better when I eat this way. Let's talk quality of life here, why don't we?
  

So... let's do the simple arithmetic. Would I rather die of a nice, clean fatal heart-attack, or be blind, lame, and dependent on dialysis for years? This is a no-brainer.

Bear in mind, of course, that I think I'm much more likely to have a heart attack if I don't lose the weight by following a low-carb diet than if I do. But this was labeled as a "thought experiment".