The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

by Jason Fung

your health. FACT: TYPE 2 DIABETES IS FULLY REVERSIBLE AND PREVENTABLE MOST HEALTH PROFESIONALS consider type 2 diabetes to be a chronic and progressive disease. This promotes the idea that type 2 diabetes is a one-way street, a life sentence with no possibility of parole: the disease continually gets worse until you eventually require insulin injections. But this is actually a great big lie, which is excellent news for anyone who has been diagnosed with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes. Recognizing the fallacy of this belief is the crucial first step in reversing the disease. Actually, most people already instinctively recognize

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Dr. Sarah Holberb at Perdue University Argued that the low fat diet endorsed by American dietetics association were wrong.. Ted Speech Powerful message of hope Low fat era

Dr. Sarah Holberb at Perdue University

Criticizes low fat diet

Refined grains and sugars are the main sources of carbohydrates, and any low-carbohydrate diet should restrict these.

Okinawans, a group living on a small island in southern Japan, eat a traditional diet that is almost 85 percent starch. Both groups eat mostly sweet potatoes. With virtually no sugar or refined grains such as flour,27 type 2 diabetes is almost non-existent. The native diet of Kitava, a small island off New Guinea, consists of 69 percent carbohydrates, mostly tubers (sweet potato, cassava, and yam), coconut, and fruit, but their average insulin level is lower than 90 percent of Swedes.28

GET RID OF SUGAR—GET RID OF DIABETES

British Medical Journal caught my eye. Bread raised blood glucose more than table sugar. Disbelieving, I found to my utter amazement—

pulses [legumes]. •Enjoy olive oil, nuts, and other healthy saturated fats. •Avoid added sugar.

“It is clear that we made a major mistake in recommending the increase of carbohydrate loads.”

Rule#1: Avoid fructose

Some obvious foods to eliminate are sugar-sweetened beverages, including sodas, iced tea, sports drinks, mixed alcoholic drinks, juices, smoothies, coffee drinks, and “enhanced” water. These liquids are loaded with sugar. Cookies, cakes, desserts, muffins, cupcakes, and ice cream are other obvious sources.

Rule#2: Reduce refined carbohydrates and enjoy natural fats

Replace those refined carbohydrates

with fatty fish, olive oil, avocados, and nuts. The natural saturated fats found in beef, pork, bacon, butter, cream, and coconuts are also healthy fats. Eggs are an excellent choice, as are most seafoods.

Rule#3: Eat real food

FOURTH RULE, IN CASE THE FIRST THREE AREN’T ENOUGH

Dr. Ancel Keys’s famous Minnesota Starvation Experiment11 placed volunteers on a diet of 1500 calories per day. Despite the study’s name, this diet restricted calories by 30 percent over the subjects’ usual diets—a degree of calorie restriction not dissimilar to many weight-loss diets recommended today. In response, the subjects’ basal metabolic rate dropped about 30 percent. They felt cold, tired, and hungry. When they resumed their typical diet, all their weight came right back. Reversing type 2 diabetes relies upon burning off the body’s excess glucose, so the daily calorie-restricted diet will not work.

In my Intensive Dietary Management program, we often start with a thirty-six-hour fasting period three times per week for type 2 diabetes. During the eating periods, we prescribe a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet. We provide strict medical supervision for patients, and frequent follow-up visits are essential. After they begin, we adjust the fasting schedule for each patient according to how they respond.

Professor Nicholas Wareham of University of Cambridge commented that the study was a “real breakthrough, showing that lifestyle intervention can reduce the risk of long-term cardiovascular consequences of diabetes.”18