The Diabetes Diet is for Life

This diabetes diet way of eating will effectively 'cure' your diabetes if you are Type-2 and make live a lot healthier and allow you to reduce your insulinif you are a Type-1 diabetic. This is because it reduces blood glucose and also dramatically reduces your insulin requirements, whether they are from your pancreas or the injections.

However, it is not a 'diet' in the weight loss sense of the word; it is not something you go on for a short period and then go back to eating 'normally'.

Type-2

If you are a type-2 diabetic, your blood glucose will go down into the normal range and you will no longer be considered diabetic. This means that with normal glucose and normal insulin, you will no longer be liable to contract any of the complications of diabetes and can live a healthy life.

But you will still be insulin resistant (insulin resistance was what led to your diabetes), so you will have to be careful, possibly for the rest of your life.

Type-1

The pancreas seldom produces no insulin at all. At diagnosis of type-1 diabetes, some 5%-15% of the pancreas's beta cells are usually still producing insulin. If these are relieved of the burden of continually having to reduce excessive levels of blood glucose, they will usually produce sufficient insulin for the variety of other metabolic processes that need it, and supplementation with injected insulin is not needed.

A study, reported in 2005, also provided evidence that the pancreas continues to make insulin-producing beta cells even after many years with type-1 diabetes. Dr. Peter C. Butler from the University of California in Los Angeles told the audience at the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions

'The implication is that type 1 diabetes could, theoretically, be cured if we could stop the new insulin-secreting cells being destroyed.'

Until now, the only hope of reversing the disease seemed to be replacement of beta cells by transplantation. Butler's team showed that, among individuals who'd had type-1 diabetes for decades — in some cases up to 60 years — the majority still had detectable insulin-producing beta cells in their pancreas.[1]

This amount may be sufficient for type-1 diabetics to live a normal life without having to inject insulin.

Merely reducing carbohydrate intake, particularly from fruit and cereals, may be all that is required to reduce the symptoms of type-1 diabetes from a serious health hazard to a mere annoyance. And, even if it is still necessary to inject insulin, the amount needed can be reduced substantially.

Reference

1. Butler PC. Beta-Cells Regenerate Even In Type 1 Diabetes. ADA 57th Scientific Sessions, June 2005.