Cut Just One Nutrient to Cure Type 2 Diabetes

In the past few years, a small war has taken place in the United Kingdom which one side now claims it has won.

On the one side were Public Health England with their “official science-based” diabetes diet guides, and on the other side forum members of the global diabetes community website, with their abundance of experience.

For years, the official British health institutions advised that type 2 diabetes sufferers steered clear of low-carb diets, as their scientists believed the evidence for their effectiveness was at best mixed.

Instead they recommend a diet resembling the infamous American food pyramid, whereby all meals should be based on starchy vegetables and whole grains, with a moderate amount of plant protein, relatively few fats, and five servings of fruits and vegetables per day.

In a 2011 review of the scientific literature, for example, Diabetes UK recommended that a 2,000-calorie daily diet should contain 225 to 300 grams of grains, which amounts to 45 to 60% of the day’s calories.

Forum members of some of the biggest diabetes forums in UK have for years argued that low-carb diets worked for them. When the British health organizations refused to listen, they decided to set up their own survey.

120,000 people signed up for a 10-week low-carb diet, to which 80,000 managed to stick.

The British Telegraph revealed that 70% of participants reported improved glucose levels; 87% reported having lost weight, and 10% lost more than nine kilograms (20 pounds.)

By the end of the 10 weeks, 20 %of them claimed that they no longer needed drugs to control glucose.

So what does the low-carb diet contain?

Meals should consist almost entirely of green vegetables and legumes (pulses), and may include moderate amounts of meat, animal fat in the form of milk and butter, plant oils in the form of olive oil, nuts, seeds, and coconut or palm oil, and under five servings of fruit per day.

It should involve almost no grains (even whole grains), pasta, bread, grain-based morning cereal, starchy vegetables like potatoes, carrots, pumpkin, or squash, processed foods, or any other food with added sugar.

Carbs should not exceed 130 grams per day.

Our 3-step type 2 diabetes strategy uses partly the low-carb-diet approach. However, we don’t like the extremes of the restrictive diet and the key is to be able to reintroduce most of the carbs after your type 2 diabetes is cured.

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