I did manage to get my dad to stop eating a lot of grain/sugar foods though.
He was borderline needing insulin for type 2 diabetes (also linked to long term statin use) and doesn’t like needles.
I used the finger stick machine to show him that a stick of cornbread jacked his sugar high enough to need insulin.
So that’s a very once in a while thing now rather than a couple with every meal.
Coinkadinkly his cholesterol levels dropped and now he doesn’t need the statin any longer.
But if the GoD MD told him that the cornbread was probably good for him I suppose he’d get back on the statins and get over his fear of needles to take the insulin he’d need.
Good luck - I’ve got two seriously ill elderly relatives I’m dealing with day-to-day. I’m surprised I have any hair left & that I’m not an alcoholic ... yet. :-)