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FAT causes diabetes (and high blood pressure and heart disease) NOT Sugar. Dietary fat clogs up your bloodstream preventing insulin from effectively doing it's job.
http://www.amazon.com/Neal-Barnards-Program-Reversing-Diabet...
It's estimated that 60% of type-2 diabetics would no longer be affected if they simply lost weight and got down to a healthy BMI. Obese Type-2s should really be called "Type F" because it's not fair to people who didn't self-inflict their condition.
I hear this repeated often, but I don't think type 2 diabetes is due to being fat alone, nor can you get rid of diabetes by losing weight. There are morbidly obese people who do not develop type 2 during their lifetime, and then there are severely underweight people (like my dad, who is literally skin and bones, and I mean concentration camp prisoner of war underweight where you see every rib from the back) who still…
Type 2 Diabetes can 100% be "cured" by a low fat vegan diet. Sorry you don't need a pill, you need to wake up and face the fact that you are poising yourself with your high fat diet. FAT causes diabetes (and high blood pressure and heart disease) NOT Sugar. Dietary fat clogs up your bloodstream preventing insulin from effectively doing it's job. http://www.amazon.com/Neal-Barnards-Program-Reversing-Diabet... https://…
So while you actually might be right, that in many cases a low fat vegan diet helps T2 diabetes, it's only one of many strategies to arrive at a suitable diet.
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Given that Type 2 diabetes is generally believed to be caused by diet, it makes sense that diet could fix it as well. My personal hypothesis is that some people have intestinal bacteria that are really, really good at breaking down sugar very quickly. So when you eat high GI foods, your gut turns them into glucose very quickly releases them into your blood, and your body has to deal accordingly. IMO that would help e…
The standard human digestion system is really really good at breaking down sugar very quickly. Enzymes dominate the process, not microorganisms.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17927751 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11157352
I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes about a year and a half ago, at the time I had an HBA1C of 8.2 (6.0 is the top end of normal). The first thing I did when I got home was google "cure for diabetes", the newcastle diet is what came up. After 6 months of the usual medication (metformin etc.) I decided to give it a go. You can see my log, which includes medication, supplements, exercise, total calories per day and BG…
People who use metformin seem to live longer than those who don't. Studies are about to be done to see if it actually works: http://www.wsj.com/articles/fountain-of-youth-drug-trial-has... "Behind the mania is a widely used, inexpensive generic pill for Type 2 diabetes called metformin. Scientists are planning a clinical trial to see if the drug can delay or prevent some of the most devastating diseases of advanced a…
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> most people who get Type-2 Do you have any evidence that it's most ? > let's shame everyone who is fat for being overindulgent. Being overweight is tied to many diseases, and costs me a lot of money in health care costs. I have a say in this.
Skinny people get Type-2 diabetes too. The beautiful thing about figuring out a treatment is that it'll help you if you're Type-2 diabetic and should ease your suffering from the disease regardless of your fitness level.
I didn't say they didn't. The OP said "most" people who get type 2 aren't fat. I merely asked for any evidence.
Edit: OP didn't actually say that.
But:
>Just look at family and ethnic correlation.
"People of different racial and ethnic groups are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. African Americans, Mexican Americans, American Indians, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans have a higher risk for these deadly diseases. This is partly because these populations are more likely to be overweight, have high blood pressure and have type 2 diabetes. - See more at: http://www.diabetes.org/are-you-at-risk/lower-your-risk/nonm...
I'd say "family" is much the same, since eating habits are learned at home.
I realize not everyone with Type-2 can help it. I also realize there are many overweight people who can.
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Skinny people get Type-2 diabetes too. The beautiful thing about figuring out a treatment is that it'll help you if you're Type-2 diabetic and should ease your suffering from the disease regardless of your fitness level.
> Skinny people get Type-2 diabetes too. I didn't say they didn't. The OP said "most" people who get type 2 aren't fat. I merely asked for any evidence. Edit: OP didn't actually say that. But: > Just look at family and ethnic correlation. "People of different racial and ethnic groups are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. African Americans, Mexican Americans, American Indians, Native H…
Just look at family and ethnic correlation. (rare) Monogenic diabetes is even hereditary!
Type 2 Diabetes can 100% be "cured" by a low fat vegan diet. Sorry you don't need a pill, you need to wake up and face the fact that you are poising yourself with your high fat diet. FAT causes diabetes (and high blood pressure and heart disease) NOT Sugar. Dietary fat clogs up your bloodstream preventing insulin from effectively doing it's job. http://www.amazon.com/Neal-Barnards-Program-Reversing-Diabet... https://…
The current science does not support this position. The current science basically says there is an interplay between fats and carbs, and that fat tends to clog your arteries when consumed in the presence of a caloric surplus, usually brought on via carbs. Low fat diets seem to work provided they are high in fiber, and high fat diets seem to work provided they are low in carbs. High fat, high carb seems to be where we…
The fact is: fat tastes good. Nobody want's to give up bacon and cheese so we keep looking for ways to say it is "OK". Big Pharma really wants you to keep eating your fats too. They make billions of dollars a year selling people drugs to offset their lack of will power.
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> most people who get Type-2 Do you have any evidence that it's most ? > let's shame everyone who is fat for being overindulgent. Being overweight is tied to many diseases, and costs me a lot of money in health care costs. I have a say in this.
>Being overweight is tied to many diseases, and costs me a lot of money in health care costs. I have a say in this. If you have a say in this you might want to look at effective ways to push your message. We know from lots of research that merely yelling "GO FOR A JOG FATTY" does nothing to help fat people lose weight, and probably makes things harder for them.
Sources? That'd be some weird research.
Regardless, it isn't my job to "fix" overweight people. They are welcome to their indulgences. I just do want to pay for the ill effects of bad habits. I have a feeling if they were on the hook for related costs, we'd have a different looking society.
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>Being overweight is tied to many diseases, and costs me a lot of money in health care costs. I have a say in this. If you have a say in this you might want to look at effective ways to push your message. We know from lots of research that merely yelling "GO FOR A JOG FATTY" does nothing to help fat people lose weight, and probably makes things harder for them.
> We know from lots of research that merely yelling "GO FOR A JOG FATTY" does nothing to help fat people lose weight Sources? That'd be some weird research. Regardless, it isn't my job to "fix" overweight people. They are welcome to their indulgences. I just do want to pay for the ill effects of bad habits. I have a feeling if they were on the hook for related costs, we'd have a different looking society.
It's like we live in a world where all of the inner aisles of the grocery store are stuffed with $3 liters of Vodka and the outer aisles $20 20oz bottles of water and then blame and ridicule people for boozing...