Isn't there a direct connection? Diabetes is a carbohydrate disease and vegetarian diets are mostly carbs. India has a severe diabetes problem. Why would you continue to mostly eat what caused the disease?
I don’t think any medical person would say diabetes is a “carbohydrate disease.” You really don’t think there is a difference between complex carbs and simple carbs? You really consider broccoli to be junk food?
There’s a lot more to diabetes than carb intake. I was diabetic before I was vegan (10 yrs) and I have diabetes on both sides of my family. I’ve done Atkins w/limited success. The carb restriction almost drove me crazy. I felt terribly deprived and punished for being diabetic and the low blood sugars were transitory.
The issue is not carbs per se, we need carbs, it’s refined carbs. As long as I eat brown rice, keep to my portion sizes for pasta (that was hard to get used to and I still don’t eat it that often), and eat lower glycemic fruit, I don’t have spikes in my blood sugars.
I am a low-fat vegan, and for me at least, going low fat has been the key. I am eating foods that I had given up w/o detrimental affects on my blood sugars. There have been peer-reviewed studies on the success of diabetics using a low fat vegan diet. The first time I read the studies, I couldn’t get into the idea of being vegan. A couple of years later, for some reason (maybe the death of 3 diabetics that I knew), I was ready to give it a try.