As we talk to hundreds of people, we always them to sit down with a certified diabetes educator (Like a dietitian the really knows diabetes!), and find out what works for you. Simple sugars will hurt, but after all of those low cab diets the answer is in eating lots of those "complex" carbohydrates. In nations devoid of diabetes they eat complex carbohydrates and 15 preventable. (The New England Journal of Medicine September 13, 2001; 345). Other studies show that type 2 is reversible with lifestyle changes.



How hard is it to go on a real "Diet for Diabetes"?

Well there is some unlearning and RE_LEARNING to do. The hardest part is, just try to figure out what to eat out of today's supermarket. We have a "Natural Human Need" to eat and eat and pack in high caloric food. Our distant "ancestors" needed to do this to be ready for 4-day hunts. Now when did that happen last?

So the diabetic who is taking control of their blood sugar, diet and weight and acting to reverse their diabetic symptoms is eating complex carbohydrates, whole grains, vegetables and legumes, many beans, salads, lean protein and "good" fats-all in place of those things that we crave like concentrated sweets or "simple" carbs.

Let me tell you, once on this diet for 4 weeks and you will be liked a reformed smoker, but only a reformed junk food junkie!