Reverse Diet Solution - Could a Change of Diet Reverse Diabetes?

By Toma Grubb

(PART I)

Mainstream medicine is slowly waking up to better approaches to controlling type 2 diabetes. While the experts argue about the best methods to control blood glucose, many diabetics are finding the better methods of glucose control on their own.

For the past two years I have been controlling my type 2 diabetes with just diet and have eliminated the need for medications so I know it is possible. The rate of Type 2 diabetes is soaring - and it's all down to diet

We're fatter and unhealthier than ever - and one of the consequences is a soaring rate of type 2 diabetes. The condition affects nearly three million people in the UK and costs the British National Health Service £3.5billion annually, an amount expected to double in the next five years. The Minister of health for British Columbia said it is costing BC, a much smaller population, $700,000,000 per year and again there is expected a rapid increase. Similar reports are coming from the US and from most countries from around the world.

Yet it's now being claimed that with the right diet, thousands of patients could effectively "cure" themselves, without the need for drugs. This is not news to those of us who are already doing it.

All doctors advise using diet to help lower blood sugar, but what makes the new claim so controversial is the idea that the right sort of diet can actually reverse diabetes, cutting out the need for drugs altogether.

Type 2 diabetes is caused by the body becoming resistant to the hormone insulin, resulting in a gradual rise in blood glucose levels. People who are overweight and not physically active are more at risk, particularly those with lots of fat around the abdomen.

Longer term, the condition can lead to greater risk of heart attacks, kidney damage, blindness and damage to blood vessels in the legs and feet, which may even have to be amputated.

There are several drugs that boost insulin production - but when these stop working, patients have to inject themselves with the hormone itself.

One of the leading proponents of the new dietary approach is Dr Fedon Lindberg, a Norwegian endocrinologist who has treated more than 18,000 diabetic patients in his four clinics in his home country.

"My experience with type 2 diabetic patients is that a balanced low-glycaemic diet coupled with a healthy lifestyle can reverse the disease," he says.

"We have had many patients coming to us who were injecting high doses of insulin, as many as 200 units daily, who have managed to quit insulin and come off medications for blood pressure and other conditions."

One of his patients, Hannermor Hultqvist, a retired nurse, weighed 19 stone (19 stone = 266 pounds) and was injecting 150 units of insulin a day when she arrived at Dr Lindberg's Oslo clinic.

"I'd had type 2 diabetes for ten years and I was following the official low fat diet advice," she says.

"Within eight months of following Dr Lindberg's recommendations, I stopped taking insulin. Now I've lost seven stone and my blood sugar is normal.

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