For type 2 diabetes, if we would cut out refined sugar and flours, and add more fiber to our diets, our chances of getting it would be greatly reduced.
As well as add a lot of good old-fashioned red meat, butter, eggs & bacon. In fact, if that was our usual diet (with a daily mixed green salad thrown in), we might eradicate Type-2 diabetes. But everyone is so anti-meat, you won't hear this from many quarters.
“For type 2 diabetes, if we would cut out refined sugar and flours, and add more fiber to our diets, our chances of getting it would be greatly reduced.”
Robert Atkins was mostly right.
Western man’s genetics are not made to thrive on large amounts of grains and sugars. The result is excess pounds, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.