Dr Anderson Trial on Type 1 and Type 2 DiabetesDr Anderson conducted a study on the effects of a low-fat, high-fiber, high-carbohydrate diet on 25 people with Type 1 diabetes and 25 people with Type 2 diabetes. They all took insulin to control their blood sugar, and none were overweight.
Dr. James Anderson conducted his experiment by having his patients eat the diet recommended by the American Diabetes Association for one week, and then he switched them over to the experimental diet for the next three weeks, where they ate at most a tiny amount of meat a day. This allowed him to test their blood sugar levels as they moved to different diets.
What he found was that in both groups, the people were able to lower their insulin medicine. This was an extraordinary finding, especially for the people with Type 1 diabetes, because their bodies cannot produce insulin and it was long thought that nothing would ever change that fact. In the group with Type 2 diabetes, all but one person was able to completely discontinue their use of their insulin medicine!! Some of those people had been taking their medicine for years and were able to completely stop using it. Also, in both groups, blood cholesterol levels dropped dramatically as well. This means that these patients had a lower risk of having heart disease and strokes on the high-fiber, high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet. These results lasted for the four years of this study.
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