Sadly it isn't just the entertainment media that doesn't know what it's talking about. Many GP's don't either. Here in Australia it is frequently woeful. Locally there is a dedicated diabetes unit in the hospital health service. They do not however maintain ongoing monitoring or advices. It's up to you to chase them & then like the doctors they are frequently ignorant or uninformative of latest advances - simply there for the weekly paypacket.
Several years ago I started regularly fasting for up to 16 hours. The advice that I received when first diagnosed was to constantly eat small amounts. This requires the pancreas to produce insulin constantly to control the blood sugar levels. Poor thing doesn't get a chance to rest & recuperate.
I know when I'm going hypo and have adequate time to correct it. Over months the longer that I engaged in fasting the less prone I was to hypos.
But then I do not live in a land where health care has become a means of legal extortion. It is everyone's right to have good health & not have it affected by unhealthy practices introduced by massive corporations like CocaCola, Kellogs & their sugar origined diseases or McDonalds & KFC with their unhealthy fats.