LOL! So...you trade diabetes 2 for high levels of chorlesterol...and die of a heart attack or stroke instead.
Despite the massive hype on this, there is no link between high cholesterol and heart disease. Cholesterol is merely a proxy indicator of health, not an actual indicator, which has been hyped up so that you will buy Statin drugs.
So yeah, go and eat red meat and eggs. They're good for you.
Not true. Cholesterol is largely a result of liver function. The people on the Atkins diet did NOT exhibit higher levels of heart attack or stroke. IIRC, their incidence of those ills was less than average.
I completely reversed early T2D by following my doctor's advice to the letter. For several months I ate a zero carb diet and took metformin. After 6 months of eating only meat, eggs, cheese, seeds, nuts and LOTS of veggies I'd lost about 25 lbs, my BP dropped to low-normal, my blood sugars dropped to normal, my PCOS went into remission and all my blood work came back perfect.
The book Protein Power (by Eades) explains why this works.
I do NOT believe that everyone needs this diet, but if one is developing T2D, one should look into it.
I also had a friend who's father was severely obese and had a very bad heart. He was too sick for a transplant. The CARDIOLOGIST put him on a no carb diet for 6 months to help him loose weight AND to bring down his cholesterol. Here's the kicker: the cardiologist insisted that he stay on a no carb diet AFTER the transplant.