My Dad had type II diabetes. He was 5’10” and weighed 170 lbs. He died of Kidney disease.
How much weight should he have lost to reverse the disease?
A friend of mine has type II diabetes and I don’t think she weighs 100 lbs.
Watch Forks over Knives.
I see non overweight type two diabetics in the VA hospital and clinics with Agent Orange exposure diabetes. Would love to
o see someone tell them they did it to themselves.
For people like your Dad a ketogenic diet would have worked but it wouldn’t have resulted in weight loss. It’s too bad they emphasize weight loss with that diet. The diet normalizes weight to whatever normal is for you.
Right. Like I said, the weight loss part of the article is bunk IMO. People can develop insulin resistance without being overweight. It’s not as common because people who are chronic carb addicts are usually going to get overweight as a result, but the two things are not causal of each other, they are both a byproduct or symptom.
The answer for those types of diabetics seems to be not so much that they would have had to lose their weight, but that they had different dietary habits in their lives. Perhaps intensity of insulin spikes but more-so the frequency and consistency of them over time is the problem. I’m going to go on a limb and suggest that diabetes was very rare in hunter-gatherer societies, even among those who managed to reach advanced years.