A rather surprising statement about this is made around the 1:15:00 mark in this video by Dr. Lustig. This is certainly encouraging to know that diabetes sufferers do have this option. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2787021/
Keto is about the same: Veggies, Protein and Water. REDUCE big time sugars and carbs... I quit bring that Dead Bread into my house probably 12 yrs ago.....
Wow!!!! Thank you for this interesting comment Joyce Martino. I have been kind of lazy... but I do believe that every word that Stanley Jacob M. D. wrote about methyl suphonyl methane is true! www.msm-info.com/
The "Paleolithic Diet" has high amounts of protein and vegetables, but very low carbohydrates, since everything is uncooked.
The connection between sugar consumption and diabetes was suspected by 1845: In 1845, Claude Bernard wrote in his red notebook, “The digestion of carbohydrates takes place in two steps; first: transformation into glucose, second: glucose is burned in the lung. If this doesn’t happen, diabetes occurs.” Claude Bernard asked, “Is this true?” The physician William Harvey attended lectures in Paris on diabetes management given by Claude Bernard. Back in England William Banting visited William Harvey and followed his advice. In 1863, Banting wrote a booklet called Letter on Corpulence, Addressed to the Public[6] which contained the particular plan for the diet he followed. It was written as an open letter in the form of a personal testimonial. Banting accounted all of his unsuccessful fasts, diets, spa and exercise regimens in his past. His previously unsuccessful attempts had been on the advice of various medical experts. He then described the dietary change which finally had worked for him, following the advice of another medical expert. "My kind and valued medical adviser is not a doctor for obesity, but stands on the pinnacle of fame in the treatment of another malady, which, as he well knows, is frequently induced by [corpulence]." (p24) His own diet was four meals per day, consisting of meat, greens, fruits, and dry wine. The emphasis was on avoiding sugar, saccharine matter, starch, beer, milk and butter. (the salt in butter stimulates production of insulin) Banting was correct.
Excess sugar in the blood is normally transported by insulin into the cells and there sequestered as fat, so avoiding high levels of sugar in the blood will prevent type 2 diabetes and at the same time reduce obesity. Our forefathers knew all this yet in 1980 it went out in the trash:
Fruit juice is just wonderful tasting sugar water and will promote tooth decay, diabetes and obesity. The fiber in fruit is what makes the difference. It greatly slows absorption of the fructose.
