{"id":4950,"date":"2012-03-24T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=4950"},"modified":"2012-03-23T06:13:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T10:13:19","slug":"vegan-diet-can-reduce-diabetes-medication-dosage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2012\/03\/24\/vegan-diet-can-reduce-diabetes-medication-dosage\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan Diet Can Reduce Diabetes Medication Dosage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diabetics looking for an easy way to reduce their dependence on prescription drugs should adopt a vegan lifestyle, according to a paper published in Diabetes Spectrum. <\/p>\n<p>The paper notes that several studies have linked a vegan diet to decreased risk of developing type 2 diabetes.<br \/>\nIn their research, they discovered that adopting a plant-based diet reduced medication use by 43%. <\/p>\n<p>The scientists state that a vegan diet helps diabetics lose weight, an important factor in insulin resistance and blood glucose management. Also, a vegan diet may improve insulin sensitivity in certain people.<\/p>\n<p>A 21-day plan to eliminate <a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/defeat-diabetes\/\">type-2-diabetes (does NOT require vegan)&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/vegan-pyramid.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"vegan-pyramid\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/vegan-pyramid.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/vegan-pyramid-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diabetics looking for an easy way to reduce their dependence on prescription drugs should adopt a vegan lifestyle, according to a paper published in Diabetes Spectrum. The paper notes that several studies have linked a vegan diet to decreased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. In their research, they discovered that adopting a plant-based diet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-diabetes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/vegan-pyramid.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}