[Blennos]

No refined sugar. No grains. No commercially processed foods. Eat real foods.

You are correct, but I would go a little further. Cut the carbohydrates, all carbohydrates, to a minimum and increase the healthy fats. This diabetes epidemic started when we began to fear fats and replaced them with carbs. We have been given completely incorrect dietary advice for 40 years now.

[trisham]

Exactly right. Exercise, too.

[soupbone1]

The food pyramid we were taught as kids in an absolute joke. That info, along with the no fat craze and lack of personal responsibility, has been responsible for the obesity problem we face.
Karl Denninger from the market ticker gives crap financial advice, but his tickers on health and diet are spot on.

[353FMG]

The person who discovers a cure for diabetic neuropathy will receive a nobel prize in medicine.

[FatherofFive]

This diabetes epidemic started when we began to fear fats and replaced them with carbs. We have been given completely incorrect dietary advice for 40 years now.

So true. Food tastes like cardboard without fat, so they started adding high fructose corn syrup. Obesity, heart disease, and diabetes skyrocketed.

[lafroste]

Look at my post, #42 on this thread.

[PA Engineer]

You are correct, but I would go a little further. Cut the carbohydrates, all carbohydrates, to a minimum and increase the healthy fats. This diabetes epidemic started when we began to fear fats and replaced them with carbs. We have been given completely incorrect dietary advice for 40 years now.

Agreed. Type II is insulin resistance and disregulation is not a lack of insulin. The treatment is not additional insulin. This increases insulin resistance and requires even greater doses over time.

Type II is curable with a switch to a ketogenic or very low carbohydrate (VLC) diet. The results are rapid with disease reversal beginning within a couple of weeks.

Long term insulation resistance leads to damage to the blood brain barrier (BBB) and brain iron accumulation. Long term damage to the BBB leads to Parkinson's, Huntington's and Alzheimer's disease. There is some basis to genetics in a portion of the population, however the majority of the disease progression is the result of metabolic disorders and brain insulin disregulation. Further, insulin resistance leads to vascular inflammation. Markers are increased triglycerides and small particle LDLs and decreased levels of HDLs. These levels reverse rapidly with a ketogenic or VLC diet.

Ancel Keys has killed, maimed and increased human suffering more than Stalin, Hitler, and Pol Pot combined.