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Can a Vegan Diet Cure Diabetes?
By William Gottlieb, Natural Solutions
Rosa Gonzalez knew firsthand about the disasters of type-2 diabetes–a condition that results when your body stops responding normally to insulin, a hormone that pulls sugar from the bloodstream into cells, where it’s used for energy. Her uncle lost a leg to the disease; he’s one of the 61,000 people a year with diabetes who have a limb amputated because of nerve damage to legs and feet. Her aunt was on dialysis–a four-hour mechanical cleansing of the blood that took place three times a week–because type-2 diabetes had destroyed her kidneys. And every day her mother had to inject herself with the glucose-lowering hormone insulin to control advanced diabetes.
Then, at age 45, it seemed like it was Gonzalez’s turn for metabolic misery when she got the results from a routine blood test. Her A1C–a measure of long-term blood-sugar levels–was 14 percent (5 percent or lower is normal); her “bad,” artery-clogging LDL cholesterol was 153 (less than 100 is optimal); and at 5-foot-5 and 225 pounds, Rosa was officially obese. A follow-up test showed her fasting blood-sugar level was nearing 400 mg/dl (less than 100 is normal). The obvious diagnosis: type-2 diabetes. The prescribed solution: a three-drug cocktail of Glumetza (metformin), an oral drug to lower blood sugar; a statin to lower LDL cholesterol; and a diuretic to lower blood pressure.
However, Gonzalez refused these drugs–and her most recent blood test revealed a healthy A1C of 5 percent and an LDL of 78. She also dropped 80 pounds and went from a size 18 to a size 6. How did these seemingly miraculous changes happen without her taking these three medications faithfully? Gonzalez went on a low-fat, vegan diet–one that cured her diabetes and regenerated her health.
“About a year after starting the vegan diet, I had a routine appointment with my doctor, and he was floored,” says the Fredericksburg, Virginia, mom, now 47. “He told me that I no longer had diabetes. Of course, he wanted to know how I had reversed my diabetes–and I told him I owed my health to Dr. Barnard and his vegan diet, which gave me my life back.”
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add your comment »Lisa, you still provide absolutely nothing to your argument.
You fail to read the quote from Sharon I posted 2 messages ago.
You fail to read the links provided on a raw vegan diet.
You're banging on about it being about just weight loss showing you havn't bothered to read the articles presented.
How is this ever going to be a progressive discussion if after all this time, 1) you fail to read any of the information that has been presented suppporting the vegan case as a solution to diabetes and 2) you fail to present any information supporting your case for maintaining a meat based diet.
If you take a moment to look at yourself as you've clearly presented yourself here, you might find your behaviour quite strange and begin to wonder, perhaps you really are addicted and just trying to nurse and justify it to yourself still. In doing so tragically you and sarah between you have pushed all the helpful links and information people have generously posted here to the detriment of anybody looking for a way to understand their disease and get off insulin, just because both of you have proven yourselves to be too challenged to read.
Excessive amounts of information and evidence has been presented in support of adopting a vegan diet. Not a single shread of evidence from you or Sarah for people to drop the meat based diet that brought them to their disease. AGAIN, for the 3rd time I ask you, where is your evidence to support maintaining a meat-based diet?
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Donald, I am just repeating myself now.
“You yourself posted a study that showed “Forty-three percent (21 of 49) of the vegan group and 26% (13 of 50) of the ADA group participants reduced diabetes medications.”” Just in case this isn’t clear, the ADA group were eating meat and animal products. They were just on the American Diabetes Association recommended diet. 26% of them were “cured” using your definition.
Here is the reference again, since you seem to have lost it http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/29/8/1777.full
A factor that was not controlled in this, or any other study you have shown, was weight loss. So was the “cure” because of weight loss, or the vegan diet?
Donald, are you actually going to answer that this time, or will you change the topic again?
CC, as a diabetic, yes you can eat some fruit. The question is how much.
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I don't know much about diabetes so I won't even go there lol. I WILL say that just because "It stands that no one has stepped forward with a cure for diabetes based on a meat diet." does not automatically mean that the opposite is true (a non-meat diet cures diabetes). Just seems like simple logic to me.
I will also say that even if theoretically speaking someone was on a raw vegan diet eating mostly/all fruits, if he/she were eating mostly low-GI fruits (ex. apples) then obviously (well from my understanding), he/she would experience a lower rise in his/her blood sugar anyway. My point is that just because you eat mostly fruit does not mean that you're going to experience a ridiculous blood sugar spike (again speaking as someone with limited knowledge of diabetes).
I will also add that I read somewhere that Americans generally get too much protein (mostly from animal sources). I think it's fallacious to say that it's harder for veg*ns to get protein simply because they're not getting as much as omnivores (who are probably getting too much anyway). You can get MORE THAN ENOUGH protein from legumes (but I'm sure you all know that already). I WILL say that from what I've read, B12 is only found NATURALLY in animal sources. Of course, B12 can also be obtained from fortified cereals, non-dairy milks, etc.
Again, I admit I don't know much about diabetes. And I just wanted to add my 2 cents.
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I quote from Sharon
"Re: Vitamin B12/fasting. See Dr. Doug Graham's website. If it's not on the site, email him. He'd be happy to tell you about it. His high fruit, vegan, no supplement diet has a 75% success rate in getting people off insulin."
Where are the results for people on a meat based diet? provide them before your next post please. Examples, videoed evidence, has been provided for the results on a vegan based diet.
Where are yours Sarah and Lisa? You seem to argue without a shread of evidence. It's quite obvious you're protecting your egos than offering anything helpful to this discussion.
I put it to you both again, provide evidence for us to listen to you. The Vegan side of the debate has done so, where are yours?
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"It stands that no one has stepped forward with a cure for diabetes based on a meat diet."
Another sign that tells us you have no idea what you're talking about, is that you can't tell the difference between an omnivore and a carnivore. You also can't prove that meat causes diabetes, and you also neglect that fruit has sugar in it and that grains have carbs.
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Donald, NOONE has found a cure, either meat based or vegan. Noone. The only people claiming a “cure” are your vegan or raw food cronies. And the best they can do is “manage” your diabetes, reducing the amount of medication that is needed. That they even call it a “cure” is misleading and screams charlatan to me.
You yourself posted a study that showed “Forty-three percent (21 of 49) of the vegan group and 26% (13 of 50) of the ADA group participants reduced diabetes medications.”
So rather than “0% on a meat, 80% on a vegan/raw” that you are now claiming, that would be 26% or meat, 43% on vegan raw. But obviously that doesn’t suit your hidden agenda.
I apologise to the others still following this thread that my patience is running out with these raw food/vegan proponents who still insist on posting lies and exaggerated claims to anyone that will listen. That they are preying on sick people to sell products or their animal welfare agenda, I find deplorable.
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What anybody might consider, very basically, is who has found a cure on a meat based diet and who have found a cure on a vegan/raw diet.
The results will here suggest 0% on a meat, 80% on a vegan/raw.
Then we might appreciate the finer scientific details of our digestive and absorbtion processes, sources of nutrition and the creation of our body tissue.
At which point we may be able to see past the simplified understanding of carbs and sugars, distinguishing and moving away the refined ones to the natural organic complex ones.
It stands that no one has stepped forward with a cure for diabetes based on a meat diet.
Anyone proposing somebody with diabetes to continue on a meat diet should present, at the very least, a suggestion on how it is good for them before asking them to stay on the diet that has brought them the disease.
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What you all, you all promoting the market ploy that a vegan diet cures diabetes, you're forgetting that fruit has sugar in it and grains have carbs. The fastest way to increase your blood sugar, even if you don't drink soda or eat sweets, is to eat fruit and other foods that have carbs - like grains. If you have diabetes or trouble with high blood sugar, high blood sugar induced by fruits and other foods with carbs - even natural foods have carbs - is something you don't want. You're basically encouraging people to raise their blood sugar higher.
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Please watch the "How to Cure Diabetes and other Diseases by Dr. Brian Clement" on You Tube. This video informs viewers that on a vegan diet, diabetes and many other diseases can be cured simply by transitioning to vegan and raw vegan diets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VOSPVg121U&feature=related
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(cont’d) Something else I just learnt these days (in the context of the disease and its relation to the consumption of meat (and/or corn/soya and their derivatives’ overwhelming presence as ingredients in Multiple other ‘foods’ ending up in our bodies) that may be of interest -- the documentary “Food, Inc.” (from this summer) is already available on Amazon (where one can read more comments by viewers) as well as on youtube in 8 of 9 parts (yet, there is also a link, on youtube to the site where the whole documentary can be watched.) These are links to the official trailer and Part 1 of the film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eKYyD14d_0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQzzprbRb74
With my best wishes to all,
Namaste.
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