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  Diabetes in India
Dec 1, 2010
Diabetes is growing in India and in China (I have previously posted on China). Take children borne under deprivation and then start giving them lots of food and little activity and this maternal programing sets the stage for diabetes later.

This article fails to note one other obvious reason for this explosion of diabetes---the simple carbohydrates that vegetarians eat, particularly those who live in India.
  A new record weight loss: 175 pounds in a year of EF
Aug 30, 2010
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.
  Upcoming Diabetes Discussion
Aug 22, 2010
I played golf with a guy who has type 2 diabetes. He had 2 episodes of low glucose during the round. Why? He had taken extra insulin to "cover" the dinner and lemon cake he had he night before. Yet, even though his pancreas still produces insulin, he does not know what his fasting insulin is. Insulin injections make his insulin resistance worse. How is he ever going to improve by going down that path?
  Wheat, Soy, Milk and Diabetes
Aug 8, 2010
Plant proteins can contribute to type 1 diabetes through an immune response. Soy is the worst of these offending sources of protein and wheat is not far behind.
  A Diabetic's Stats after 3 months on Evolutionary Fitness Diet and Exercise
Jul 16, 2010
These results by a type 2 diabetic are pretty spectacular after just 3 months.
  Diabetes Treatment
Apr 22, 2010
An editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine (March 14, 2010) concludes that reducing hyperglycemia has little effect on the progression of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. The primary outcome of close management is a doubling of the incidence of hypoglycemic events.
  Type 1 diabetes responds well to Evolutionary Fitness
Apr 3, 2010
I developed my diet in two stages: first, to improve the health of my son and wife, both of whom were type 1 diabetics and secondly, in light of the evolutionary evidence both from studies of hunter gatherers and from deep evolutionarily conserved metabolic and genetic pathways.

Here is the experience of a reader who is a type 1 diabetic on Evolutionary Fitness, Lite.
  Diabetes in China
Mar 25, 2010
Remember how many diet studies looked at the Chinese and their low body weight and fat and then told us to eat like they do? Big problem. China is seeing exploding obesity and diabetes.
  Type 2 Diabetes is a terrible disease
Mar 8, 2010
In my view, and in the view of many medical researchers, the only successful management is a reversal of the condition. In many respects, reversal is easier, and far more healthy, than managing the disease which means little more than slowing the damage.