As a prelude to the sequence of posts I have coming up on type 2 diabetes, let me relate the success a woman advised by our member JFA up in Canada had.
"My friend Marie, to update you on her situation... In about a year since starting a somewhat EF diet, and doing as much exercise as she could (which was not much initially), she went from 475 lbs to 300 lbs in roughly 12 months.
Assuming 3000 calories per pound of fat and 2000 calories a day for metabolic requirements, she lost the equivalent of 263 days of caloric requirements in roughly one year. She is now off all meds, injectable slow insulin as well as off glucophages."
It is pretty well-known now that body fat destroys metabolism in a multitude of ways by increasing reactive oxygen species, promoting inflammation, and inducing insulin resistance in other tissues. Injecting insulin is an inferior strategy (it may temporarily spare the beta cells of the pancreas, but does nothing to alter insulin resistance over the long run and may increase it) to fat loss.
This is a new record of fat loss; the previous one was a 100 pound loss, and there are many people who have lost 70 pounds. But, the most important point is that they all have succeeded in ridding themselves of type 2 diabetes while under a doctor's watch by eating and exercising the EF way.
Type 2 diabetes is sometimes called "diabesity" in the research journals to emphasize the connection between obesity and type 2 diabetes.
