Posted on 04/18/2023 2:53:00 AM PDT by nickcarraway
An estimated 14 million cases of type 2 diabetes were caused by a poor diet, a recent study published in Nature Medicine found.
Diets that lacked whole grains or had too much refined rice, wheat or processed meats were linked to the disease.
Those that included overconsumption of fruit juice or insufficient amounts of non-starchy vegetables, nuts or seeds also had some impact on diagnoses, though not as much.
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Just plain wrong. The underlying condition remains if a person goes back to a traditional diet.
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Utter nonsense.
“Type 2 Diabetes is absolutely reversible with the proper diet.”
My dear friend completely turned around her Type 2 via diet. It was amazing. (Then she died from cancer a year later. Go figure.)
My levels were too high - pre-diabetes. Went no carb for 6 months and reduced it to a good place. Also dropped 25 pounds. Now I’ve added some carbs and am pretty much holding my own, although now I rarely eat sweets, rice, bread, and potatoes.
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Diabetes Type II is a disease of numbers. It can’t be cured because it is subject to recurrence over time if conditions revert. Generally, beyond laboratory generated blood test numbers, there few real symptoms. The disease is pure chemistry
A Body Mass index of say 29+ will result in blood glucose readings >140 and the concurrent A1C value of >7.
The disease is diagnosed as being present for consistent Blood Glucose (sugar) levels >140 over a period of 6 months. An A1C level >7 is positive indicator. A1c is a measure of blood sugar over the last 90 days.
An A1c > 5.5 or so is or was considered the threshold and a number between 5.5 and 7.0 is now threatening or pre diabetic.
Type II ends when the BMI is reduced to < 29 or there abouts and the person falls into the A1C level <7.0. The potential diabetic condition still exists but the condition of the body chemistry has changed. Diet and exercise will alter the BMI and thereby alter the deabetes mellitus condition.
I have experienced the condition for 15 years or so. The good thing is that being “diabetic” I get an annual exam and two check ups as a result.
“The underlying condition is still there”.
No! This is the whole point. That is not wrong, and I’m not sure why you want to argue about something like this. Type 2 Diabetes is absolutely reversible. The “Symptoms” are obesity, but that’s actually the cause. Insulin, insulin resistance, overweight, obesity, morbid obesity. The big pharmaceutical people are not our friends here. There’s no money to be made weaning people off junk food and prescription drugs.
Now it is true, there are some people that are Diabetic, and they aren’t obese. But that isn’t the way to bet, they are statistical unicorns.
The vast majority of people in this country and around the world that are insulin resistant, have metabolic syndrome, or pre-diabetic is simply because they eat too many carbohydrates and excess calories, and become obese. If they restrict calories, lose the fat, their blood pressure, cholesterol, blood lipids, blood sugar, liver function, etc, all those markers come back into line.
If you want to argue that they if they get fat again their Diabetes will return, well sure. I think it’s a distinction without a difference, part of the failure thinking so prevalent these days.
“I was born that way. My problems are genetic. Therefore, I cannot lose weight, ever. The End.”
Simple to prove - just let someone “cured” the way you advocate start eating a normal diet again and we will find out just how “cured” they are. It is easily provable.
Further to my other point. I do frequent weightlifting. As I have gotten older, there are certain exercises that cause me to have shoulder pain if I do them. The pain lasts for days and can be excruciating at times. If I eliminate those exercises, the pain goes away.
My shoulder is not “cured”, it is just a workaround that impacts my enjoyment of life because I can’t do the workouts I want to. I will have to have surgery to get the life back I want. Under your model, my shoulder is “cured” because if I don’t do the exercises then I don’t have the pain.
Like the old joke to the doctor about “it hurts when I do this”.
“A Body Mass index of say 29+ will result in blood glucose readings >140 and the concurrent A1C value of >7.”
No it won’t.
High fructose corn syrup.
The reason I want to argue it is because truth matters. Just as the medical establishment violated what a “case” has always been when it came to merely testing positive with COVID, to be called a “case”, instead of manifestations of illness as the traditional definition, the use of the word “cure” is factually incorrect when discussing symptom mitigation through dietary adjustments.
Everything everybody on this thread needs to know.
Plenty of research to support that. Feel free to look it up yourself.
The answer is yes. My Dad got diabetes at age 80 and 9 a pretty controlled diet for the last 30 years of his life.
Hundreds of studies show Roundup is safe.
One gullible jury in CA said the opposite.
The Roundup is dangerous is as loony as the global warming fake science.
Well I think the truth is you have some weird definitions that nobody else is using.
Someone who was diagnosed type 2 Diabetic, loses 120 pounds and all their blood work now comes in normal. They no longer need to take any medications related to Diabetes.
Is it your contention that obesity doesn’t cause type 2 Diabetes?? That’s the whole point of this article. People can reverse Diabetes by losing weight.
This is a good thing. They no longer need to take medicine to control blood sugar. You do agree, this is a good thing right?
You are very wrong.
Type 2 diabetes is very responsive to a reduction in carbohydrate intake. And exercise is a helpful addition to diet modification.
Anyone who wants to really learn about this can find much useful information on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@pradipjamnadasmd/videos
Look for any of the videos that seem like they apply to your situation. Dr. Jamnadas is helping many people, and some of them post encouraging comments about their results.
Another really knowledgeable guy is Dr. Robert Lustig. He is a pediatric endocrinologist who has lots of content posted on YouTube.
Diet makes a big difference in the Type 2 diabetes area.
Or you can just keep on believing otherwise.
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