Vegan Diet May Treat Diabetes

As I suspected, the low-fat vegan diet study was more effective than the ADA's study in other areas as well:

The results showed that both diets improved diabetes management and reduced unhealthy cholesterol levels, but some improvements were greater with the low-fat vegan diet.

For example:

• 43% of those on the vegan diet reduced their need to take drugs to manage their diabetes compared with 26% of the ADA diet group.


• Weight loss averaged more than 14 pounds in the vegan diet group vs. less than 7 pounds in the other group.


• LDL “bad” cholesterol dropped by an average of 21% in the vegan group compared with 11% in the ADA diet group who did not change their cholesterol drug use.


• Measures of blood sugar control also improved more significantly among those who followed the low-fat vegan diet than among those who followed the ADA diet and who did not change their diabetes drug use.

If there's any sense in this world, the results will hopefully challenge the establishment to spend more research dollars on larger and longer studies with the low-fat vegan diet in order to quiet the naysayers permanently.

Tags: diet | health | diabetes