“We want to promote a diet that people can live with long-term,” says Clark, who is vice president of clinical affairs and youth strategies for the ADA. “People who go on very low carbohydrate diets generally aren’t able to stick with them for long periods of time.”
However, isn’t it likely that a ver low carb diet that nearly ends diabetes, would, in a manner, “reset” the metabolism as far as how it is handling sugars, and could lead to the gradual re-introduction of a diet that restricts carbs less, without it leading back to diabetes?