This is another “I Told ‘Em!” Something I’ve been saying for decades and now science is beginning to prove I was right all along!
For nearly 40 years I’ve been asking why diabetics are given “lines” of carbohydrate and told to eat it and then take their insulin to reduce it! If diabetes is a disease which cannot safely handle carbs, why is God’s name tell patients to eat the stuff? It has never made sense. I’ve cured thousands of diabetics by simply saying “Do not eat carbohydrates.” A great many of them came off insulin altogether.
Now a new study has shown that a very low-calorie diet of 600 calories a day totally reverses type 2 diabetes.
Eleven people who had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes within the past four years slashed their calories for eight weeks, sticking to liquid diet drinks and non-starchy vegetables.
After one week on the diet, participants’ fasting blood sugar levels were no longer elevated.
MRI scans showed that the fat levels in the pancreas fell from around 8% — considered high — to a normal 6%.
After eight weeks on the diet, their bodies were once again making sufficient insulin, essentially reversing their diabetes.
Three months after going off the diet, seven were free of diabetes. That’s about a 70% cure rate. Brilliant!
So what is the doctor’s response who carried out this study? Don’t do it! Study head Roy Taylor, MD, director of the Newcastle Magnetic Resonance Centre at Newcastle University in England said they were not recommending calorie restriction as a cure for diabetes. However he was smart enough to point out that losing weight by any means whatever was good for curing diabetes.
“We have to figure out a more practical way for people to get these results — that is, to get fat out of pancreas and keep it out,” Taylor said.
Diabetes is one of the top three killers in the Western world. It’s tragic because it is such an easy disease to treat: just eat differently!
But over and over patients are told to eat their “lines” and take insulin or drugs.
You can learn more about my method of treating diabetes–and just about any other imaginable inflammatory disease, from arthritis to Alzheimer’s–using dietary control, by buying my book “Diet Wise”. Just click here or click on the banner image in the right-hand column.
[SOURCE: 71st Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association, San Diego, June 24-28, 2011.Diabetologia. published online June 24, 2011.]
Incidentally:
The last quarter century has seen such an explosion in the incidence of diabetes that nearly 350 million people worldwide now struggle with the disease, a new British-American study reveals.
Over the past three decades the number of adults with diabetes has more than doubled, jumping from 153 million in 1980 to 347 million in 2008. That’s soon to be HALF A BILLION! One might almost say that the other name for diabetes is “civilization”!
The incidence of diabetes in the United States is rising twice as fast as that of Western Europe, the investigation revealed.
[SOURCE: June 25, 2011, The Lancet, news release]
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Yes Keith it is what I keep saying to patients. The trouble is they think they have to have carb’s. For diabetes. Because the hospitals and doctors say that this is the correct diet for diabetes. Sad we are not listened to. In fact my patients get a hard time of the hospitals for trying to treat themselves their way.. In fact they are not encouraged to even check their sugar levels regularly. I can see why the health service has no money..
Have you seen the movie, Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days? In it Dr Gabriel Cousens brought six insulin-dependent diabetics to the Tree of Life Center in Patagonia, AZ, and gave them nothing but fresh, organic, raw non-starchy veggies and maybe a few low glycemic berries for 30 days. The Type Twos were all off insulin in less than a week, and all of them found all their numbers normalizing by the time they left. There were two Type Ones and they were able to lower their insulin dramatically. I think one of them even got off insulin completely. He was so impressed that he went back to school and became a naturopath.
People need to understand the difference between starchy carbs and those found in non-starchy veggies, but they always seem to be lumped together in peoples’ minds and even in books. We can eat lots of green leaves and low carb vegetables without affecting blood sugar adversely.
Diabetics also need to get the message that just keeping their blood sugar under control doesn’t stop the damage to their bodies, so they will be motivated to stop the starchy carbs and get well. Of course, they need to know they CAN get well, and most doctors aren’t telling them that, probably because they don’t know it themselves.
Rebecca..hi, I am retired from the medical field and spent many years struggling with “script overdose 101″Not really having the research knowledge at the time many drugs have been handed out and then later we see many other situations that come from the side effects. Type II diabetes is in epic proportions and improper eating and seditary life has played a part..but there has to be other contributing factors. I am in contact with several other physicians that research this area and are coming up with new info daily..by the way they have recently considered lowering the normal 100-125 range to 60-90 which will put even more in the category typeII..I am going to eliminate the carbs as Dr. Keith-Scaott suggested 1-2 weeks and will report back…weedbychoice
“People need to understand the difference between starchy carbs and those found in non-starchy veggies, but they always seem to be lumped together in peoples’ minds and even in books. We can eat lots of green leaves and low carb vegetables without affecting blood sugar adversely. ”
“I’ve cured thousands of diabetics by simply saying ‘Do not eat carbohydrates.'”
So what is wrong with this picture? Yet another doctor adding to the confusion between refined carbs, starchy carbs and junk food vs whole, plant food, complex carbs. I would prefer to give patients the benefit of the doubt so far as intelligence goes and explain the difference to them. There is a whole crew of doctors out there who have been doing this for many years… Fuhrman, McDougall, Barnard, Shitani, Ornish, Esselstyn….
How about uric acid . My patient on low carb diet get elevated uric acid levels!
I’m a newly-diagnosed adult Type 1. I just got back from a meeting with my Diabetes Educator, and returned to find an email pointing me to this article. Ironically, I had just spoken with her in our meeting about the pros and cons of the low-carb diet.
She told me that a low-carb diet runs the risk of ketosis, and can deplete the liver of its glucogen stores. I agree that some people go overboard with this diet to a dangerous degree. This is undoubtedly why Ken Rebong complained of elevated uric acid levels.
Also, I disagree with the author’s premise above. He states, “If diabetes is a disease which cannot safely handle carbs, why is God’s name tell patients to eat the stuff? It has never made sense.” This is twisted logic.
The body needs balanced levels of carbs, proteins, and fats to maintain a healthy equilibrium. Carbs and 50% of proteins give the cells the glucose they need to operate correctly. Fats help slow down the process to a nice smooth rate. All three are necessary elements of a healthy diet.
To say that, “diabetes is a disease which cannot safely handle carbs” is completely misrepresenting the situation. A more correct assessment is to say that the body needs carbs to operate, but diabetes is a disease wherein people have lost the insulin needed to process carbs correctly. So by taking insulin, you’re simply restoring the body to its natural state.
Paying attention to the glycemic index can absolutely have helpful affects. Also, it’s totally safe to experiment with different carb rates to see how it affects performance. But to strive towards extreme lows — or even eliminating — carbs can have seriously dangerous long-term consequences.
You’re way off Jan and have clearly bought in to the propaganda fed to you.
We are naturally hunter-gatherer’s and this group never get diabetes.
Meat, fish, fruit and veg. Where’s the carbs in that?
You’ve adopted the line that the food industry wants you and everybody else to believe: we need carbs and we needs complex carbs etc.
It’s all bunk. Grains and starches are NO PART of our natural diet.
I wish you well with your type 1. But you won’t beat it till you listen to those who have beaten it! If you go along with ANYTHING said by those who make it a lifelong disease, then you’ll have a lifelong disease!
Prof.
How do you help your adrenals?…
I must do a mini-book on that, it’s important.
Meantime, I think I remember a good piece by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger at HealthNews
You’ll have to Google it.
Doc, you are truly an inspiration to many of the younger docs. I read and pass on your wisdom to many of my patients and family and friends. Thank you for all that you do and your wonderful teachings. Your worth in saving millions of lives may not be known at this point but I promise you it will in the future…thank you,
Dr. kash
Dr Kash, I’m humbled by your kind comments.
Keith