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albertabeefy
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A professor of nutrition at University of Alabama, Birmingham has published her research that "Diabetes can be prevented and reversed with carbohydrate-restricted diet".

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20161230/Diabetes-can-be-prevented-and-reversed-with-carbohydrate-restricted-diet-says-UAB-expert.aspx

I know this isn't news to those in this group ... but those studying nutrition / dietetics are NOT taught that low-carb can be healthy or sustainable. So for a professor of nutrition to publish this ... is kinda huge IMHO.

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  • RalfLott
    RalfLott Posts: 5,036 Member
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    Thanks for the ref! Nice to hear some straight talkin' for the majority of us T2Ds.

    The press release could have been written by Dr. Bernstein himself. (Of course people are glad to get off insulin!)
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  • RalfLott
    RalfLott Posts: 5,036 Member
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    Speaking of Dr. Bernstein, here's an article of which he and UAB Prof. Gower are co-authors:

    Dietary carbohydrate restriction as the first approach in diabetes management: critical review and evidence base.
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25287761
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
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    Unfortunately, I expect such experts to remain quite fringe for the foreseeable future. We're talking about roughly 150 years of propaganda, and about 200 years of conjecture prior to that.

    And that's before you even get close to chasing the money aspect. However, I'm starting to believe that part might have less to do with it. For all the bad press "Bug Ag" has gotten from the low-carb movement in general, there's a veritable ocean of money to be made on plant proteins, now that it's been figured out how to get complete amino profiles without using soy products.

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