Doctors in Arizona start low-carb nonprofit to combat rise in diabetes
Doctors in Arizona have started the Low Carb Diabetes Association to overcome the increasing problems with type 2 diabetes – a great initiative that could have a big impact:
Jewish News: Doctors Start Nonprofit to Prevent, Treat Diabetes
As type 2 diabetes is caused by diet and lifestyle factors, it makes sense to treat it with positive changes in diet an lifestyle. The nonprofit organization will educate people about what they call “The Eight Essentials”: a low-carb diet, exercise, sleep, stress management, healing the gut, detoxification, supplementation and medication.
Personally, I’m most impressed by the effect of the low-carb diet, but surely there are added benefits to have from exercise, sleep and stress management. I’m not convinced that healing the gut or detoxification have any proven benefits for type 2 diabetes, and the effects of supplementation are likely fairly marginal. But all of it together is sure to be a powerful package nonetheless, for reversing type 2 diabetes.
The only obvious thing missing? Intermittent fasting. But I guess you could call that a (very) low-carb diet.
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Worse, I've seen a lot of LCHF (or more often paleo) sites that have a lot of anti-vax stuff mixed in. That makes me INSANE. Makes it seems like something you should distrust and avoid, at least to people who have a scientific background and are given to wanting evidence based advice.
That site also has stuff on the healthy gut section that is questionable - about avoiding gluten (which you won't be getting anyway but it's not the gluten that's the issue, so why go on about it?) and dairy. DAIRY. And other stuff - in some parts it is decidedly tipping into the woo category, and it's also massively complicating something that is actually really simple.
I distance myself from this sort of rubbish and I don't think it's doing anyone any favours to be honest.
If you find homeopathy/coffee enemas/angels/candling/iridology or whatever the latest 'alternative therapy' is useful, then good for you and off you go. But there is NO evidence that any of this stuff works and considerable evidence that it doesn't. That's why I hate it being mixed with LCHF, for which there is a considerable body of evidence.
On vaccines, I'd differ. The anti-vaccine movement flies in the face of evidence and is dangerous. Do what you like to yourself, but refusing to vaccinate someone else based on discredited advice is not doing something to yourself. It's potentially dangerous to at least one and possible many other people (because herd immunity).
And Matt: 'coffee should only go in one oriface' - LOL