Many parents who show the GAPS diet to their paediatricians are told that the diet is too low in carbohydrates and this can be harmful to the child?
Medical doctors are the last people on Earth one should ask for nutritional advice. There is no training in nutrition in medical schools, so generally your doctor knows no more than any lay person, who derives their knowledge about food from food industry advertisements in the mainstream media. The nutritional dogma, dominated by “science” funded by food industry, has pronounced proteins and fats as evil, so there was nothing else left to replace them but carbohydrates. So, the population has been subjected to decades of propaganda that we all need lots of carbohydrates, and doctors were brainwashed just as much as everybody else. Strictly speaking carbohydrates are the only macro-nutrient, without which humans can live perfectly well in good health. But we cannot live without proteins and fats, which have been vilified by the nutritional establishment.
