For example, here’s a recent quote from their blog:
The Mediterranean Diet is one of the highest rated diet plans to both prevent and manage diabetes.
The blog post has some tips on moving your diet towards Mediterranean. You don’t have to jump in with both feet, but I would!
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…according to an article at USAToday.
h/t Dr. Emily Deans (Twitter @evolutionarypsy)
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DAR is a type 2 diabetic who controls her diabetes with carbohydrate-restricted eating. She shares her story in a recent blog post. She started low-carbing as a way to control diabetes, but writes that…
A nice side benefit to starting a low carb lifestyle was losing the 60 lbs I had fought a losing battle to avoid packing on (despite paying a lot of money for low fat diet plans and food). Admittedly, the last 10 lbs or so are difficult to lose and keep off and it’s a battle I’m still fighting every day, but watching the first 40 lbs or so melt off easily was so gratifying!
DAR’s website is a great source of low-carb recipes and I listed it as a resource in my Conquer Diabetes and Prediabetes book.
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Researchers at the University of Miami’s Diabetes Research Institute are excited about a new therapy they’re developing, call the BioHub. Riva Greenberg wrote about it at The Huffington Post:
The BioHub is an engineered “mini organ” that will house insulin-producing (islet) cells that, like normally functioning islet cells, sense blood sugar and release the precise amount of insulin to maintain normal blood sugar levels. “It will mimic the insulin function of a normal pancreas,” Dr. Camillo Ricordi, DRI’s Scientific Director and Chief Academic Officer, told me in a phone interview. “It will restore natural insulin production for any patient, no matter how long they’ve had diabetes.”
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Then she saw a dietitian who convinced her to follow conventional wisdom and increase carbs to at least 130 grams daily.
The result was that my HbA1c rose above 7 percent. My blood sugar levels were frequently in the 200 to 300 mg/dl range (far above the normal level of about 85 mg/dl), even when I supplemented with extra insulin. My former dose of seven units of insulin per day increased to 30 units per day.
I’m not sure what she did after that.
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Robert Lustig and associates looked at sugar consumption and diabetes rates in 175 countries and found a strong link between sugar and type 2 diabetes. It’s not proof of causation, just suggestive. From the abstract:
“Duration and degree of sugar exposure correlated significantly with diabetes prevalence in a dose-dependent manner, while declines in sugar exposure correlated with significant subsequent declines in diabetes rates independently of other socioeconomic, dietary and obesity prevalence changes. Differences in sugar availability statistically explain variations in diabetes prevalence rates at a population level that are not explained by physical activity, overweight or obesity.”
Reference: Basu S, Yoffe P, Hills N, Lustig RH (2013) The Relationship of Sugar to Population-Level Diabetes Prevalence: An Econometric Analysis of Repeated Cross-Sectional Data. PLoS ONE 8(2): e57873. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057873
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According to an article in Diabetes Care:
“Resistance exercise causes less initial decline in blood glucose during the activity but is associated with more prolonged reductions in postexercise glycemia than aerobic exercise. This might account for HbA1c reductions found in studies of resistance exercise but not aerobic exercise in type 1 diabetes.”
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