Effects of Dairy on Type 2 Dabetes

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 In taking up the task of reversing your Type 2 Diabetes, trying to figure what foods to eat and which ones to avoid makes it a very confusing situation for many who wrestle daily with this disease. The so-called experts in the medical field are telling us one thing while a small group of doctors are exploring alternative routes and are finding that there are choices that we can make along with the traditional medicines that we treat ourselves with. Let me give you one example.

 Dr. Neal Barnard has done research into the effects of a low fat vegan diet on people who have Type 2 diabetes. When compared to studies done by the American Diabetes Association, the low fat vegan diet was superior in results and was found extremely effective in reversing Type 2 diabetes. Dr. Barnard seems to think that it may be the abundance of bad dietary fat in the diet that corrupts the cell wall and makes it ineffective in allowing insulin to bring blood sugar into the cell.

 This very in-depth and informative article is an attempt by the author (Zoe) to inform of the misleading information put out by the media to sabotage our attempts to control or reverse the type 2 diabetes problem. It is very long but full of a lot of serious content. I also placed a link to the original article to show that not one letter or word was changed.

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Low-fat dairy foods & diabetes risk

Written by Zoë on February 6, 2014 - 3 Comments
Categories: Ingredients, Media comments, Research

I woke up on the morning of Thursday 6th February 2014 to a number of tweets informing me that headlines were claiming “yoghurt is key to beating diabetes.” The on-line version of the Express moderated the headline to “How low-fat dairy food can help to cut your diabetes risk” but the story was all over the news from Australia to India.

This study in the journal Diabetologia was the source article. It is available for free download (as of the time of writing), which is helpful.

The study

There is a study going on across Europe called the European Investigation into Cancer Study (EPIC). It started in 1991 and I just happen to be one of the UK members. I get questionnaires every few years asking me to share health details and asking me what I ate over the previous year. This blog post has a link to the questionnaire.

The Norfolk part of the EPIC study (this is called a cohort) has 25,639 men and women. They were aged 40-79, when they were recruited into the study between the years 1993-1997. The numbers in the Diabetologia paper are confusing at times. It appears that this diabetes/dairy study has randomly selected 4,127 participants – 753 with known cases of type 2 diabetes from the full cohort and 3,502 as a subcohort. This 3,502 group also contains cases of type 2 diabetes (as a valid random selection will reflect the original group). There are 128 cases of type 2 diabetes in the subcohort of 3,502. (Incidents of type 2 diabetes were recorded up to 31 July 2006. There were 892 in the whole study – 25,639 people – giving an incident rate of 3.5%.)

Don’t worry about any of this. It will soon become irrelevant.

I then tried to work out when the dietary questionnaire was undertaken. Is this diabetes/dairy study relying upon the initial food diary questionnaire completed on entry? Or one undertaken during the study? The paper says “Baseline dietary intake data were collected using a 7 day food diary [Reference 15].” Reference 15 is dated 2001 and describes the general method for the Norfolk EPIC study. Does this mean the study is relying upon a food diary from between 1993 and 1997 – baseline entry to the study?

I read on a bit and realised that this too is irrelevant. And this is why…

The characteristics of the subjects

Table 2 is the important one on the study. It puts the 3,502 subcohort people into three groups – those with total dairy intake under 183 grams per day; those with total dairy intake between 184-312 grams per day and those with total dairy intake over 313 grams per day. These may seem strange groups – but they’ve just split the 3,502 into equal numbers of people and seen where the lowest, middle and highest thirds of dairy intake fall.

Table 2 tells us that we ended up with no age differences between the three groups (all had an average age of 59). However that’s where the similarities ended.

TABLE 2 in the paper	Tertile 1	Tertile 2	Tertile 3
g/day	≦ 183	184-312	≧ 313
People in group	1,168	1,167	1,167
Mean (average) age	59	59	59
Total dairy intake – mean g/day	116	245	447
Men (% of group)	40.5%	41.1%	48.5%
Related factors lifestyle:
Alcohol (units/week)	8.5	6.6	5.4
Smoking (% current smokers)	14.1%	10.7%	9.6%
Physical activity (% active)	15.6%	19.9%	21.8%
BMI (mean)	26.8	26.2	25.8
Waist circumference (men) – mean in cm	97.5	95.7	93.9
Waist circumference (women) – mean in cm	82.4	81.4	81.3
Dietary factors:
Saturated fat (% total energy)	12.9%	12.9%	13.1%
Mononunsaturated fat (% total energy)	12.3%	11.9%	11.6%
Polyunsaturated fat (% total energy)	6.7%	6.6%	6.2%
Calcium intake (mg/day)	624	807	1,077
Magnesium intake (mg/day)	256	289	330
Vitamin D intake (mcg/day)	2.38	2.85	2.98

The claim

The Abstract of the paper (the summary) states:

“Results: Total dairy, high-fat dairy, milk, cheese and high-fat fermented dairy product intakes were not associated with the development of incident diabetes. Low-fat dairy intake was inversely associated with diabetes in age- and sex-adjusted analyses (tertile [T] 3 vs T1, HR 0.81 [95% CI 0.66, 0.98]), but further adjustment for anthropometric, dietary and diabetes risk factors attenuated this association.”

In simple terms this is saying:

- We found NO association (positive or negative – no association at all) between the incidence of type 2 diabetes and total dairy OR high-fat dairy OR milk OR cheese OR high-fat fermented dairy products. NO ASSOCIATION AT ALL.

- The claim is then that low-fat dairy intake was inversely associated with diabetes when we only adjusted for age and men/women i.e. a higher intake of low-fat dairy was associated with a lower incidence of diabetes with virtually no data adjustment. This still says nothing about causation. It merely says we observed two things together when we didn’t adjust for things that we need to adjust for.

- The final part says that – when we did properly adjust for all the things that were different, the observation was “attenuated”. This is so disingenuous it’s scandalous. It should have said from the outset, when we adjust for all the differences between the groups there is no association whatsoever between low-fat dairy and diabetes. There is nothing to observe. We have found nothing and there need be no newspaper headlines.

There are 3 models in the paper:

Model 1 adjusts for age and sex and nothing else – that’s the one they use to claim an inverse association between low-fat dairy and incidence of diabetes. Table 2 tells us that there is no difference in age – all groups have an average age of 59. There are more men in the higher dairy group, but so what?

Model 2 adjusts for BMI, family history of diabetes (which is not in table 2 for some unknown reason), smoking, alcohol, physical activity and other lifestyle attributes. We can see from Table 2 that the lower dairy group have 1.6 times the alcohol unit intake of the higher dairy group. The lower dairy group has one and a half times the percentage of current smokers. The lower dairy group has 70% of the physically active people in the higher dairy group. The lower dairy group have higher BMIs and larger waistlines. All of these favour the higher dairy intake having less incidence of diabetes and this having nothing to do with dairy, but lots to do with alcohol, smoking, activity, weight and waist size. And sure enough – when the data is adjusted to compensate for these stark differences, the association disappears.

Model 3 then further adjusts for dietary differences – energy intake, vegetables (higher in the higher dairy/lower diabetes group), processed meat (lower in the higher dairy/lower diabetes group)etc and this also eliminates, sorry, attenuates, any associations.

I was amused by the fact that group 3 – with the higher dairy intake and lower incidence of diabetes also had the highest saturated fat intake, lowest monounsaturated fat and lowest polyunsaturated fat intake, but that didn’t make the headlines. Less amusing is the difference in calcium, magnesium and vitamin D intake between the three groups. What impact did that have on health?

If you like stats, table 3 in the paper shows you all of this. This table takes the lower dairy tertile as being the baseline of 1 and then looks at the middle intake of dairy and the higher intake of dairy relative to this – for models 1, 2 and 3.

Each row gives a mean (average) and then the standard deviation in this kind of format: 0.93 (0.74-1.18). This means that the average was 0.93 but that the standard spread around this average lies between 0.74 and 1.18. a) That’s quite wide and b) the number 1 falls within this range so this is not seen as significant – because the comparator of 1 falls within both groups.

You can use this principle to see at a glance – as the paper reported – that nothing is significant for total dairy, high-fat dairy, milk, cheese or high-fat fermented dairy. Low fat dairy is only significant for model 1 – with none of the adjustments that need to be made. There is no association when the lifestyle factors are properly taken into account. Ditto – the association with fermented dairy disappears as soon as lifestyle factors are properly taken into account.

Only one factor nudges out of the significant range. Look at the last line in table 3. The upper limit of the standard deviation is 0.99 – just a notch away from touching the line of no significance and this is for low-fat fermented dairy. And it’s association, not causation. And it’s about relative, not absolute risk. Do you think that was worth today’s headlines?!

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 I hope all the information wasn’t too much to handle. I think the bottom line to this subject is that we need to cut WAY BACK on our consumption of dairy products and that even if it is low fat, you may be better off without. I personally prefer to not drink or eat anything made of cow’s milk. I am not a baby cow and just can’t see why I would put such a thing in my body. Beat Type 2 diabetes with a pH balanced diet

 

Randy Powell, Eating-Veggies.com

Reduce Diabetes Risk With Exercise

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 This is just another reason that type 2 diabetes has become out of control... lack of exercise. Most people would rather be asleep or in front of the television rather than spend a little time every day getting a little bit of a workout. Teaching your body how to burn blood sugar through regular exercise is a very important part of type 2 diabetes control and needs to be takien more seriously by those who suffer with this disease.
 
The following article is writte and posted at NYR Natural news, written by a "staff writer". Any time that someone is willing to shout the benefits of exercise on type 2 diabetes then I think they should be heard.
 
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TRY YOGA TO REDUCE DIABETES RISK

16 January, 2014

By Staff Writer
NYR Natural News

 

Natural Health News — If you are a woman the chance of developing type-2 diabetes can be cut significantly with just three and a half hours of exercise a week. But the type of exercise matters.

It has long been known that aerobic exercise on its own can prevent type-2 diabetes. Likewise muscle-strengthening alone or in combination with aerobic exercise improves diabetic control among those with diabetes. In particular, studies show that men who weight train have been found to have an associated reduced risk of developing diabetes.
What is less well established is whether such an association also exists for women.Writing in the journal PLOS Medicine, Harvard researchers attempted to find out.

They looked at a large population 99,316 of healthy women, drawn from two 8-year long studies: the Nurses’ Health Study ([NHS] 2000-2008) and Nurses’ Health Study II ([NHSII] 2001-2009).

The goal was to determine whether their weekly time spent performing lower intensity muscular conditioning exercises (resistance exercise, yoga, stretching, toning), and aerobic moderate and vigorous physical activity reported at the beginning of the studies, and during follow-up halfway through, 2004/2005 was associated with a reduced risk of new onset of diabetes.
They found that resistance exercise and lower intensity muscular conditioning exercises were both independently associated with a reduced risk for diabetes, even after adjusting for aerobic activity and many other potential confounding factors.

Women who engaged in at least 150 min per week of aerobic activity and at least 60 min per week of muscle-strengthening activities had a substantial 33% risk reduction compared with inactive women. But even just an hour’s workout every week cut the risk by 13%.

The authors say the study’s findings need to be taken in context: the physical activity was self-reported by questionnaire (and therefore subjective), and the study population consisted of nurses with mostly European ancestry 9and therefore may not apply to other ethnicities).

Even so they conclude: “The findings from our study…suggest that incorporating muscle-strengthening and conditioning activities with aerobic activity according to the current recommendation for physical activity provides substantial benefit for [diabetes] prevention in women.” 

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 As a type 2 diabetic, you have two choices: either start getting more exercise or remove nutrient deficient calorie dense foods from your diet. Eating refined starches and sugars while being inactive can lead to weight gain and if you eat high fat foods like most Americans do then you are well on your way to being sick and diseased all the time. It is important that you eat nutrient dense foods that are high in anti inflammatory properties. Eat nutrient dense alkaline foods to beat diseases like type 2 diabetes

Randy Powell, Eating-Veggies.com

Burn Fat and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

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 Being a success at reversing Type 2 diabetes depends greatly on the patient’s ability to remove excess body fat. Far too many calories and the presence of insulin that is continuously pumped into the bloodstream eventually will make you fat and insensitive to insulin. This is called pre-diabetes and usually develops into type 2 diabetes. Eating a diet low in fat yet high in nutrients is important for your body as it tries to heal itself.

 The following guest article is written by Sarah Westcott of the Express, a media outlet in the United Kingdom. This informative article mirrors the success that a low calorie diet can possibly have on the reversing of type 2 diabetes. I t is very important to get body fat under control as this is probably the first step in beating this disease. It is a well written report that has the research to back up its claims. Good luck to all who may give this method a try.

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How a strict diet of 800 calories a day can cure diabetes in weeks MILLIONS of people with Type 2 diabetes have been given fresh hope after researchers discovered a short-term “crash diet” can reverse the killer ­condition.

By: Sarah Westcott

Published: Mon, January 6, 2014

Overweight patients who were put on a diet of just 800 calories a day were free of the disease within a few weeks of following the strict regime.

Experts last night hailed the results as “enormously exciting” and are now working on a trial to test whether the reversal of this form of the disease could be permanent.

Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in people of working age and a major cause of lower limb amputation, kidney failure and stroke.

In the UK, there are some three million people living with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, and around 850,000 more who have Type 2 diabetes but don’t know it because they haven’t been diagnosed.

As many as seven million people are at high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and if current trends continue, an estimated five million people will have diabetes by 2025.

The diet, which was tested on 11 patients, is a key part of a new £2.4million medical trial of almost 300 people with obesity-induced diabetes.

Professor Roy Taylor, of Newcastle University, who led the study, said: “We demonstrated that by changing calorie intake we could change fat levels in the liver and pancreas and return insulin production to normal.

“The new study is to see whether GPs can use this approach to reverse diabetes in their patients and whether it will stay reversed. The evidence is that it will, but we need a large-scale trial to prove that it works.”

Professor Taylor, and Professor Mike Lean, from Glasgow University, will be jointly overseeing the new trial.

They used MRI scans to watch how crash dieting removes fat around the liver and pancreas.

In healthy people, the liver should contain around two per cent of fat, but in obese people, it can reach 40 per cent and suppress insulin production. Professor Taylor said the results were “enormously exciting”.

He added: “The good news is that if you cut fat in the diet then the liver fat falls very rapidly and that means the pancreas can start working again.”

The new study will see 280 patients with Type 2 diabetes monitored for several years – with half of them on a crash diet for eight to 20 weeks.

Professor Lean said: “We’re confident that some people with Type 2 will be able to achieve remission.

“But what we really want to know is how many can do it.

“If our analysis shows this approach is both effective and cost-effective, our aim will be to produce a programme that can be implemented in the NHS as soon as possible.”

Diabetes UK said that the approach was promising and said that, if the results are positive, the impact on patients will be “huge”.

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Many diabetes patients are not going to do the research and find a way to improve their diabetic situation. They will be happy with just taking their medications and eating all the wrong foods against their doctor’s wishes. It takes self discipline and a great will to live in order to beat any disease but after watching others suffer a die without a fight makes me wonder if the general public has become satisfied with just giving up on life like a bunch of ignorant livestock. Reverse type 2 diabetes with a diet high in alkaline foods

Randy Powell, Eating-Veggies.com

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Does Resistant Potato Starch Help with Type 2 Diabetes?

 Learning to control or reverse Type 2 diabetes is becoming a priority in the lives of millions of people in America and around the world. I have been advocating a low fat, moderate carb, animal-free diet for some time now and think that it really does a great job at reversing the disease. Of course the key is to eat 60-80% of your diet in the form of alkaline foods, especially alkaline vegetables. These low sugar foods are full of phytonutrients needed to heal your cells and helps to get them functioning to the point of improving your ability to metabolize blood glucose. There are some diabetic patients who have discovered the method of using resistant potato starch to keep blood sugar levels under control. This is the area in which I intend to focus most of this article.

  There are many people out in the world who have done an excellent job reversing their type 2 diabetes and they should be highly commended.  Some do it on a very low fat vegan diet and others have been successful on a low carb, meat eating diet. I strongly encourage you to take one of these paths and see if it will work for you. This article was written by Steve Cooksey of the Diabetic-Warrior.net. He has been a success at getting off of diabetic medications by following a low carb paleo diet and he loves it! It is long and very well written but should give you plenty of information on the subject of resistant starch and low carb dieting.

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Resistant Starch: Why? Q & A

This entry was posted in activities and tagged diabetes resistant starch on January 2, 2014 by Steve Cooksey.

  I am about half way through the 30 Day Resistant Starch Experiment. I wanted to give an update, clarify a few things and to answer a few questions.

Quickly… if you do not know what Resistant Starch is, read this Intro Post first… please. :)

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Do NOT dismiss ‘resistant starch’ because of the word ‘starch’ … it should be called ‘resistant fiber’.

Do not be like one woman I know.

She made the statement, “Resistant Starch does not work well for me.”

When asked if she had ever tried it … she replied, “No”

This is the kind of ignorance we fought when going ‘low carb paleo’.

THINK ABOUT THAT!

Now … on with the show. :)

Starting in Sept 2013 I began a 30 Day Recording of my Overnight Fasting Blood Glucose levels (OFBG), this was before Resistant Starch. My range for the month was 71 – 91 mg/dl, with an average of 80.87 mg/dl. I am and was ELATED with those numbers!!

I eat fatty meats, butter and coconut oil EVERY DAY, add in the leafy green veggies most days, the occasional fermented dairy and a rare ‘snack’ of nuts or berries and that comprises 99.9% of what I eat.

I was not only surviving on this … I was THRIVING on this meal plan.

I have NO REASON TO CHANGE. I love the way I eat, I love the way I feel … I love the way I LIVE!!

So why do the Resistant Starch Experiment?

If you claim to be interested in health, if you claim to care about people, if you claim to be THE ’diabetes warrior’ … how could someone not experiment?

If you read the Intro post you should know the potential benefits that apply to everyone especially diabetics. The two main benefits are…

o    Improved Insulin Resistance

o    Improved Glucose Processing

These two benefits, if true… APPLY TO ALL DIABETICS! Most diabetics struggle with this mightily.

There are an estimated 300 million diabetics in the world, and many more people who have harmful elevated blood sugars…

Given my interest in helping others, given my ‘love’ for personal experimentation… how could I not EXPERIMENT?

Why Part II (Q & A)

This next section will answer questions I often receive.

“But why? If you are thriving?”

I am doing this, not for myself … but to help others.

Through my website and social media I have come to know MANY diabetics who are struggling to maintain normal blood sugars.
Some struggle to maintain even elevated blood sugars.

I have good friends who are ‘low carb paleo’ and are struggling. Of course I will experiment if I thought I could help them…. who would not?

I am doing this to satisfy my own curiosity but also, I do occasionally eat berries and on rare occasions fruits. Too, when I exercise intensely sometimes my blood sugar levels will rise into the 130-140 mg/dl ranges… if potato starch can help me in those circumstances… I would benefit from it.

There are 100′s of millions of diabetics world wide taking and paying $100′s of millions of dollars for drugs. Not only is this a huge expense paid by the diabetics, the insurance companies and the governments… but in many cases they have harmful and damaging side effects.

If one person could wean off of drugs or insulin … this experiment would be WORTH IT!

WHY WOULD I NOT TRY IT? .

Lastly, there are other reported benefits including improved satiety but the single largest benefit of ALL? … improved gut health. IF Resistant Starch improves gut health (and I think everyone agrees that it does) at the very least Resistant Starch is a cheap ( less than $5 per lb), inexpensive prebiotic. We are just now learning the importance of gut health to our overall health. This could be the biggest benefit of all.

Google “Prebiotic” and see… a small bottle can cost $5… many for $10 and more. One pound of resistant starch is less than $5.

What do you hope to achieve?

World Domination!! I’ve bought Potato Starch future contracts and … I’m joking. :)

I hope to prove or disprove the reported benefits. If it helps me (and it does) I want to shout the NEWS from the mountain tops! … in hopes that it helps others.

If it reduces the drug (and insulin) needs of others it’s a WIN!!!

You aren’t taking Potato Starch so you can eat junk are you?

My response to this was … HELL NO! :)

I understand why the question was asked. MILLIONS take diabetes drugs to mask the symptoms of disease, just so they can eat breads, cakes, cookies, pasta and cereals… that’s a fact.

I’m not doing this experiment so that I might be able to eat a cookie… or a cake… NEVER!!! I’ve eaten my last piece of bread, I’ve eaten my last donut… period. :)

I understood the question because I’ve seen people say that they have eaten those items and potato starch mitigated the blood sugar response. They were rejoicing because they could once again… eat ‘junk’. UGH!!!

As I have noted many times on this blog… I don’t eat breads, cakes and cookies etc for several reasons.

1) The Blood Sugar Effect

2) Glutenous, Hydrogenated Oiled, High Fructose laden crap that’s called ‘food’ … will never purposely cross my lips. I’m not going to poison my body… for a sugar rush.

It’s the principle of the thing too. If I look a diabetic in the eye and tell them… “I’m clean since 2009 and if I can do it, so can you.”

That’s a powerful statement.

3) I’ve paid TOO much money to those that profit from the pain and suffering of this planet and it’s people. I will not ever purposely contribute to the bank accounts of Big Food, Big Pharma nor the Medical Industry.

… hows that? :)

What if someone does start back eating junk food.

That’s on them, people must take responsibility for their own actions.

I was a drug and insulin dependent diabetic taking (4) insulin shots a day to survive, not to mention a long list of drugs. I’m now drug and insulin FREE thanks to a ‘low carb paleo’ lifestyle!! Should I not share this with people? Knowing that many will fall off the wagon?

Of course I should share it! Of course I should try to improve the lives of others.

What they do with this… is on them.

Early Results

For me the results are no longer ‘early’ I will flat out state …

·         FACT: Resistant Starch has reduced my Overnight Fasting Blood Sugars (read this post)

·         FACT: Resistant Starch has reduced my Blood Sugar spike post Potato (read this post)

·         FACT: Resistant Starch IS helping other diabetics. These are people I know and trust to report the results honestly and accurately. (read this post)

I mention ‘early results’ because I’m far from finished. I’ll continue to experiment with highER carb foods, exercise, etc.

Stay TUNED!

Resistant Starch Information

Vast majority of what I know about Resistant Starch, I know either from Richard Nikoley’s website or links he’s published.

Special thanks to Richard Nikoley of FreeTheAnimal.com for his dogged determination to drag many of us into at least testing the claims of resistant starch. Here you can see all the posts Richard has written on “Resistant Starch“.

According to Richard, “Bob’s Red Mill Potato Starch” is the best source for resistant starch, click here for their website, You can order online from Amazon, but I’ve found it in one local grocery store via the store locator on the website.

Also according to Richard, I took and continue to take (4) TBS every day. Initially I took (1) TBS at a time, 4 times a day. Initially I had a small bump but after a couple of times my BG response went away and I began to take (4) TBS at one time.

I stirred it in water originally or cool coffee but now I add to full fat, plain yogurt or full fat sour cream.

Do NOT heat up the Potato Starch, do not cook with it. Doing so chemically changes the resistant starch into starch.

Potato Starch - I started out taking (1) TBS, four times a day. I only eat once a day so … it’s okay to take on an empty stomach. When I no longer had a BG response, I took (2) TBS twice a day, then (4) TBS once a day.

Note: If you have a sensitive stomach or have intestinal issues, you may want to try (1) TSP per day, and increment (1) before switching to TBS. Many experience flatulence … I know I did. :)

That’s about all I have… if you have any more questions… feel free to ask. :)

Thanks,
Steve

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 I hope you enjoyed this article and can possibly use this information to better improve your type 2 diabetes to get better. Despite what many doctors tell their patients, they CAN reverse their type 2 diabetes if they are willing to put forth the effort that it takes to turn around the metabolic problem created by their own food choices. Reverse your type 2 diabetes with a diet high in alkaline foods

Randy Powell, Eating-Veggies.com

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