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October 11, 2006 | Issue 86 |
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Reversing Diabetes: Carbs Are Good For You
It’s not uncommon for doctors to tell their Type 2 diabetic patients, "Watch out for carbs." The supposed concern is that carbs send blood sugar (glucose) levels soaring, which in turn sends insulin production into overdrive.
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But a growing body of research is finding just the opposite. For people who need to watch their blood sugar, a very high-carbohydrate diet is actually good for you. What’s critical is the type of carbohydrate. Certainly, if you’re eating refined carbs like white bread and sugary desserts, blood sugar levels may shoot up.
The Right Carbohydrates
But if the bulk of your diet is fiber-rich, unprocessed carbohydrates like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and beans, you can actually normalize blood sugar levels and even reverse the diagnosis of pre-diabetes and diabetes, scientists are now discovering.
The latest investigation, conducted by UCLA researchers, followed 13 diabetic men at the Pritikin Longevity Center for three weeks. It reported that the Pritikin high-fiber, high-carb diet and daily exercise not only helped the men lose weight and improve cholesterol levels, it also decreased blood sugar levels by 20% and insulin levels by 30%.*
Reversing Diabetes
What’s more, by the end of their three-week program, 6 of the 13 men had controlled their fasting blood glucose, or blood sugar, so well that "they were not classified as diabetic," wrote lead investigators Drs. James Barnard and Christian Roberts of UCLA. The men left Pritikin completely free of their diabetic medications, "and others had their medication dosages reduced."
In addition to normalizing blood sugar and ameliorating classic heart disease risk factors like high cholesterol and high blood pressure, the Pritikin Program also substantially improved newly discovered risk factors, such as inflammation in the arteries.
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