It is also ruinously expensive, as doctors visits, hospital stays, insulin, blood test strips, leg amputations, continuous glucose monitors and numerous glucose-lowering drugs add up to about $400bn a year.
“The ingenious author of the work now before us,” a 1797 article in the Edinburgh review Annals of Medicine said, “recommends a mode of treatment, which in some cases, has been decidedly productive of remarkable benefit.”
As I previously wrote about in the Guardian, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes three years ago and prescribed insulin shots and metformin, but was able to get off all medication by adhering to a strict low-carbohydrate diet.
Or why the ADA’s huge educational campaigns soft-pedaled the diet, and preferred to let millions of people with type 2 diabetes take numerous medications or shoot themselves up with insulin instead.
“The reality is that if you want to treat type 2 diabetes effectively, the first thing you have to do is throw out the ADA’s dietary guidelines,” Sami Inkinen told me.
The losers are the millions of people with diabetes who suffer amputations, blindness, neuropathy, often daily shoot themselves with insulin and eat carbohydrate-rich foods because they simply are not informed about their healthier options.
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It is also ruinously expensive, as doctors visits, hospital stays, insulin, blood test strips, leg amputations, continuous glucose monitors and numerous glucose-lowering drugs add up to about $400bn a year.
“The ingenious author of the work now before us,” a 1797 article in the Edinburgh review Annals of Medicine said, “recommends a mode of treatment, which in some cases, has been decidedly productive of remarkable benefit.”
As I previously wrote about in the Guardian, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes three years ago and prescribed insulin shots and metformin, but was able to get off all medication by adhering to a strict low-carbohydrate diet.
Or why the ADA’s huge educational campaigns soft-pedaled the diet, and preferred to let millions of people with type 2 diabetes take numerous medications or shoot themselves up with insulin instead.
“The reality is that if you want to treat type 2 diabetes effectively, the first thing you have to do is throw out the ADA’s dietary guidelines,” Sami Inkinen told me.
The losers are the millions of people with diabetes who suffer amputations, blindness, neuropathy, often daily shoot themselves with insulin and eat carbohydrate-rich foods because they simply are not informed about their healthier options.
The original article contains 1,981 words, the summary contains 201 words. Saved 90%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!