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Source: Plant-Based Diet Helps Native Americans Overcome Diabetes – Nutrition Studies
The chart above is reproduced from the source article and demonstrates prevalence of type 2 diabetes in the respective populations. Original source reference is also documented in the source article.
Stay as thin as you can as long as you can.
Your pancreas will thank you.
Source: Diet clues for preventing diabetes – Nutrition Action
The title is catchy and leads you to believe you can “prevent” diabetes with diet. I personally favor the concept of delaying diabetes rather than preventing the disease. My father (deceased) had, and my youngest brother has diabetes. I knew what my risk was and continues to be.
Many years ago I asked one of the country’s top endocrinologists what I could do to avoid developing diabetes. His answer was short and simple:
Stay as thin as you can as long as you can.
Be nice to your pancreas!
Researchers have found — for the first time — that a diet yielding high amounts of the short-chain fatty acids acetate and butyrate provided a beneficial effect on the immune system and protected against type 1 or juvenile diabetes.
Source: ‘Medicinal food’ diet counters onset of type 1 diabetes — ScienceDaily
They eat monkeys.
Which means they’re not vegetarians.
Source: Benefits of Oatmeal for Fatty Liver Disease | NutritionFacts.org
Small study with interesting findings.
Results – A one tenth decrease in carbohydrate intake or increase in protein intake or a 2 unit increase in the low carbohydrate-high protein score were all statistically significantly associated with increasing incidence of cardiovascular disease overall (n=1270)—incidence rate ratio estimates 1.04 (95% confidence interval 1.00 to 1.08), 1.04 (1.02 to 1.06), and 1.05 (1.02 to 1.08). No heterogeneity existed in the association of any of these scores with the five studied cardiovascular outcomes: ischaemic heart disease (n=703), ischaemic stroke (n=294), haemorrhagic stroke (n=70), subarachnoid haemorrhage (n=121), and peripheral arterial disease (n=82).
Conclusions – Low carbohydrate-high protein diets, used on a regular basis and without consideration of the nature of carbohydrates or the source of proteins, are associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
A low-carbohydrate diet based on animal sources was associated with higher all-cause mortality in both men and women, whereas a vegetable-based low-carbohydrate diet was associated with lower all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality rates.
Source: Low-carbohydrate diets and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: Two cohort Studies
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition is a high quality, peer-reviewed journal that covers all aspects of human nutrition.
Conclusion:
Prolonged consumption of diets low in carbohydrates and high in protein is associated with an increase in total mortality.
Source: What’s in your hot dog? A histological comparative analysis | Medical Journal of Australia
Where do we begin? The results of this study were surprising to these authors. Although the absence of identifiable squamous mucosa definitively refutes the oral and anal mucosa hypothesis, the truth, if possible, seems much worse. The surprising lack of skeletal muscle may have been depressingly expected; however, the wide variety of tissues present and the extensive amount of fat making up the majority of the specimen were not. And as stated before, the origin of the recognisable vegetable matter does not bear thinking about, but one result of this study is that these authors may never eat hot dogs again.
CONCLUSIONS-Â Improvement in overall diet quality is associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, whereas deterioration in diet quality is associated with a higher risk. The association between diet quality changes and diabetes risk is only partly explained by body weight changes.
