There is also evidence for the reversal of progressive renal failure with an LCHF diet in an obese diabetic patient, so that the authors question whether ‘obesity caused by the combination of a high-carbohydrate diet and insulin may have contributed to the patient’s failing kidney function’.35 Secondly, there is clear evidence that the primary cause of kidney failure is T2DM.36 And diabetes is caused by high-carbohydrate/high-sugar diets in people with IR. So the advice of these dietitians – to eat less protein and fat and more carbohydrates – can be directly linked to increasing rates of
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