Originally Posted by sbm12

Yeah, I read it. Particularly the part where they explain the long-term effects:


Unless you are eating in the fast food facilities in an airport all the time for an extended period of time you are not going to develop diabetes from it. I've eaten in airports twice a day many times (and often more, especially on a mileage run). Doing so on individual occasions does not increase the chances of developing diabetes. You would have to make a lifestyle choice to do so over an extended period of time. Clearly that isn't a problem for you since your diet is so well controlled. Unless you choose to change your dining patterns significantly the chances of you developing diabetes from the occasional airside meal is about the same as that of a piano falling on your head - virtually nil.

Someone who has already been diagnosed is at a whole different level of risk than you are, by orders of magnitude. You can choose to not eat the airport food. A diabetic does not have the choice to not eat if they experience an attack, or potentially to prevent an attack. They need to be able to consume an appropriate food and to do so immediately. There is an enormous difference.

I have no problem with you telling the TSOs that you have a special diet that requires you to only drink protein shakes that you have to carry with you. But that isn't a medical excuse, and they will be justified in choosing to ask you to surrender your liquids or not be admitted airside.