Sugar Myth 1: Sugar/Carbs Cause Diabetes
There's nothing wrong with consuming sugar or carbs. The healthiest foods in the world, such as fruits, vegetables, including starchy vegetables and whole grains, contain sugar and carbohydrates.
If you limit your carbohydrate intake you are depriving your cells, which run on glucose. Your body can get its calories from carbohydrates, fat or protein. If you go on a low carb diet, you will need to get your calories from either fat or protein. A high fat diet is not a healthy option, because it decreases insulin sensitivity and causes the diabetes in the first place, and a high protein diet will decrease your longevity and health. So that leaves us with one option for optimum health, and that is a high carb (80-90%), low fat (5-10%), low protein (5-10%) diet. So eat as much as you want of fruit, starchy vegetables and whole grains. You don't have to count calories; just keep the vegetable oils low and cut out the animal products.
Dr Neal Barnard is the world's best at reversing the disease and has conducted his own randomised controlled trials. For example, in this study, the group that had no restriction on calories, but ate as much as they wanted of high carb low fat vegan food, reversed their diabetes even more than those on the calorie restricted American Diabetes Association diet: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...
Some people also think that carbs make you fat. This is definitely not the case! Check out my Sugar Myths 2 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oQtG...
Here's another video I made answering a question about diabetes: • Sugar Does Not Cause Diabetes | How T...
Free resources for diabetics
http://pcrm.org/health/diabetes-resou...
http://www.nealbarnard.org/
How To Prevent Diabetes -- Greger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCA8r...
How To Treat Diabetes -- Greger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOjvE...
Raw Food Diet & Type 1 Diabetes With Robby Barbaro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qae1K...
Robby Barbaro's Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpW_T...
Tackling diabetes with a bold new dietary approach: Neal Barnard at TEDxFremont
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktQzM...
Dr Michael Greger, MD discusses diabetes and the dangers of low carb diets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es4PF...
11 (55%) People Reversed Type 2 Diabetes - American Journal of Clinical Nutrition - Robby Barbaro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G55Ck...
Forks Over Knives -- Dr Neal Barnard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxFai...
Insulin Index of Foods
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/66/...
