"I certainly accept that some
"I certainly accept that some people with adult diabetes might have difficulty fine tuning a diet to completely rid them of the condition, but common sense leads me to believe it would be a small percentage. If we threw the type of money we currently do for diabetes meds into dietary approaches the results would be way better."
Just because people don't do it, doesn't mean it cannot be done - there is no way to know if it would be a smalle percentage or not. The worst thing is "experts" telling people that the very food that is killing their pancreas is the food they need for "brain function" - what if the threshold for a particular diabetic to get off meds is 70 carb grams a day, but they are warned they may never go below 120 a day - and they get sicker, and sicker, and sicker for want of a simple fix. They might meet people who've gotten off their meds and are successfully controlling theinr blood sugar through diet (and if that is not "cured" I don't know what is - just because you cannot ever eat a Twinkie again does not mean you have pathology). No money should be going towards telling people what to eat. It should be going towards PACS and political advocacy orgs that make sure the USDA and FDA do not allow things that are not food to be called "food". And do not allow for extensive junk food subsidies. And both the ADA's and the AHA should be defunded for spreading bunk science.
"I certainly accept that some people with adult diabetes might have difficulty fine tuning a diet to completely rid them of the condition, but common sense leads me to believe it would be a small percentage. If we threw the type of money we currently do for diabetes meds into dietary approaches the results would be way better."
Just because people don't do it, doesn't mean it cannot be done - there is no way to know if it would be a smalle percentage or not. The worst thing is "experts" telling people that the very food that is killing their pancreas is the food they need for "brain function" - what if the threshold for a particular diabetic to get off meds is 70 carb grams a day, but they are warned they may never go below 120 a day - and they get sicker, and sicker, and sicker for want of a simple fix. They might meet people who've gotten off their meds and are successfully controlling theinr blood sugar through diet (and if that is not "cured" I don't know what is - just because you cannot ever eat a Twinkie again does not mean you have pathology). No money should be going towards telling people what to eat. It should be going towards PACS and political advocacy orgs that make sure the USDA and FDA do not allow things that are not food to be called "food". And do not allow for extensive junk food subsidies. And both the ADA's and the AHA should be defunded for spreading bunk science.