From the work of Reaven, Volek and their colleagues, and from my own study,75 we know that the only chance these groups have of escaping the deadly complications of IR and T2DM is to drastically reduce their daily carbohydrate intake to below 50 grams per day. Those with T2DM should reduce to below 25 grams per day. The problem is that because so many of these typical South Africans have blood cholesterol concentrations ‘dangerously elevated’ at more than 5.01 mmol/L, when they finally present themselves to conventionally trained physicians or cardiologists who believe that cholesterol causes
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