[i_love_cake]

I came across the article in last month's issue.

The Cure For Diabetes - Men's Health

[i_love_cake]

I forgot to add that the author, Adam Campbell is adamantly opposed to the ADA's relationship with food companies such as Cadbury-Schweppes.

[BlueSky]

It is a very well researched and written article. The ADA responded quickly to it. But they are finding their position increasingly difficult to defend. Here is their response together with the MensHealth rebuttal.

MH The Fitness Insider

There are also some interesting letters at the bottom. Support for this view is clearly growing.

[DeusXM]

It's not actually a cure though - it's just a recognition that a diet that isn't high in carbohydrates requires less medication to control in people with T2. The basic problem remains. If these people were indeed cured of diabetes, they would be able to eat a normal diet without suffering any adverse blood sugar effects, just as they were before they developed T2.

[Just_Plain_John]

Agreed, Deus. There are a couple of points in the article that are valuable :

Diet control affects how much medication you need.
Some doctors (and institutions) tend to overmedicate.
Reducing root causes reduces symptoms and long-term effects.

We all need carbs, and as diabetics we need to minimize our risk of heart and kidney disease. So our dietary guidlines need to be MODERATION, and eating healthy foods that minimize things like cholesterol and triglyceride impact without having to always resort to medication.

In addition, calories eaten must equal calories burned from exercise, or we gain weight. Larger cells (containing body fat) make it harder for insulin to act at metabolizing our stored fat energy during glycolysation. So whether type 1 or type 2, we need less medication if we are at a leaner body weight. Usually, that's not easy - heck, I'm hungry right NOW, and I don't really need to eat before lunch. Grumble.

It's nice to see someone being practical about treatments.

[Larry H.]

Thanks, thats a pretty interesting article. I have been following fairly closely the ADA guidelines and on them I have lost weight as well as somewhat lower GL after three or so months. But that said, I think that there may be alot of interesting information in that study, it does seem to make sense. I may have to farther reduce my carb intake, (darn).
What I am not too clear on yet is the relationship to pre diabetes, which is what I may have, and to reducing the food, carb intakes effects on the body. Some things I have read on the internet seem to day that if caught before it fully turns type II the body can sometimes revert to working pretty much correctly. I am not clear on that. Or is it just slowing the progression of the problem?