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Food to the rescue: new federally funded study supports major shift in diet treatment for diabetes: it seems too simple to be true. But the numbers prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt. A low-fat vegan (no animal products) diet treats type 2 diabetes more effectively than the standard diabetes diet or oral medication.

Article from: Vibrant Life Article date: July 1, 2007

Diabetes is not necessarily a one-way street. Recent studies have shown that persons with type 2 diabetes can improve and, in some cases, even reverse the disease by switching to an unrefined, vegan diet.

Funded by the National Institutes of Health and working with Georgetown University and the University of Toronto, a research team from the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) set about to compare two different diets: a high-fiber, low-fat, vegan diet; and the more commonly used American Diabetes ...

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