A study published in the “Diabetes Care” journal (read abstract) concludes that people who ate a low-fat vegan diet, cutting out all meat and dairy, lowered their blood sugar more and lost more weight than people on a standard American Diabetes Association diet.
Dr. Neal Barnard, president of the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine, which helped conduct the study, and his team of colleagues at George Washington University, the University of Toronto and the University of North Carolina tested 99 people with type-2 diabetes, assigning them randomly to either a low-fat, low-sugar vegan diet or the standard American Diabetes Association diet.
After 22 weeks on the diet, 43 percent of those on the vegan diet and 26 percent of those on the standard diet were either able to stop taking some of their drugs such as insulin or glucose-control medications, or lowered the doses. The vegan dieters lost 14 pounds on average while the diabetes association dieters lost 6.8 pounds.
A vegan diet avoids all usage of animals and animal products for food including meat, fish, poultry, honey, eggs and dairy products.
-Via WikiPedia
“I hope this study will rekindle interest in using diet changes first, rather than prescription drugs,” said Dr. Barnard.
-Via CNN Health
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