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Although millions of people undergo problems with diabetes, they are not
generally aware that their problems could greatly be relieved by adjusting their
diet. Diabetes is the 8th leading cause of death in the United States, because
diabetics are extremely vulnerable to arteriosclerosis and are highly prone to
heart attacks and stroke. Most diabetics eat the standard diet that most other
people eat. As a result most of them, during a seventeen year period which
follows discovery of their diabetic condition, undergo major health problems,
including heart attack, kidney failure, strokes, and blindness. In Lancet, the
British medical publication, Dr.Inder Singh reported a study in which 80
diabetic patients were restricted to very low fat diets - 20 to 30 grams per day
- and forbidden any sugar. By the time six weeks had elapsed, more than 60% of
the patients no longer required insulin. The figure eventually rose to 70%, and
those who were left only required a small fraction of the insulin formerly
needed. All 80 cases were monitored for periods ranging from six months to over
five years, and the success of the dietary change was confirmed over time. [1]
This knowledge has been known for 38 years, yet diabetics are not generally
informed about this dietary matter, and this results in much needless suffering,
tremendous profits for the medical and pharmaceutical industry, and needless
early death for many people. Willfull criminal negligence? Yes. There is a rare
and very serious form of diabetes called childhood onset diabetes which in many
ways is a different disease. It is a situation in which the pancreas has been
injured and cannot make enough insulin, or in some cases any insulin at all.
Despite this kind of problem, maintaining a meat/egg/dairy fee diet and having
fiber in the diet reduces the need for external insulin by as much as 30%.
In 1972, Dr.Walter Metz informed the Council for Advancement of Science that he was willing to bet that a majority of diabetes-prone patients at two VA hospitals, if given supplementary amountds of chromium in their diets, would be able to better handle their body glucose. The point was to test a theory that chromium deficiency contributed to the condition. The work of Dr. Metz has never been contested. Chromium is apparently one of the trace minerals, along with zinc, that is essential to the proper functioning of insulin in the body. According to Kühnau and Von Holt, zinc is necessary for the binding of insulin to the islets of Langrahans in the pancreas - binding which is necessary for the functional and morphological intergrity of B-cells. In the advanced treatise on Mineral Metabolism, C.L. Comar and Felix Bronner also call attention to the zinc-insulin relationship. Cobalt and selenium may also be involved, since they vary in concentration with both glucose and insulin administration, according to Dr.D.Behne, of Berlin’s Hahn- Meitner Institute. The clinical importance of such findings was underscored in an article on juvenile diabetes appearing in the April 1971 issue of Nutrition Today, which suggested that the metabolism of trace elements such as chromium and zinc may be altered in those who have this condition. Since the dubious practice of refining wheat flour leads to a marked loss of such trace elements, this is an area which needs to be addressed. Both trace elements are available in a plant based diet.
Elimination of sugar, meats, eggs, dairy products and fats in the diet, plus
the inclusion of fiber and adoption of more of vegetarian diet, can improve at
least the following conditions: Hypoglycemia, Multiple Sclerosis, Ulcers,
Constipation and Intestinal Problems, Obesity, Arthritis, Gallstones,
Hypertension, Anemia, Asthma and Salmonellosis.[2]
[1] Singh, I.,"Low Fat Diet and Therapeutic Doses of Insulin in Diabetes Mellitus," Lancet, 263:422, 1955.
[2] Hollenbeck, C.,"The Effects of Variations...", Diabetes, 34:151, 1985 Olevsky, J.,"Reappraisal of the Role of Insulin in Hypertriglyceridema," American Journal of Medicine, 57:551, 1974 Miranda,P.,"High-Fiber Diets in the Treatment of Diabetes," Annals of Internal Medicine, 88:482, 1978 Alter, M.,"Multiple Sclerosis and Nutrition", Archives of Neurology, 23:460, 1970 Malhotra, A., "A Comparison of Unrefined Wheat and Rice Diet in the Management of Duodenal Ulcer," Lancet, 2:736, 1982 Burkitt,D., "Dietary Fiber and Disease," Journal of the American Medical Association, 229:1068, 1974 Blaw, S., and Schultz, D., Arthritis, Doubleday, 1974 Donegan,W.,"The Association of Body Weight with Recurrent Cancer", Cancer, 41:1590, 1978 Kellgren,J.,"Osteo-arthrosis..." Annals of Rheumatic Disease, 17:388, 1958 Lucas, P.,"Dietary Fat Aggravates Rheumatoid Arthritis," Clinical Research, 29:754A, 1981 Parke,A., “Rheumatoid Arthritis and Food", British Medical Journal, 282:2027, 1981. Derrick, F., "Kidney Stone Disease: Eval and Medical Management" Postgraduate Medical Journal, 66:115,1979 Kannel, W.,"Should All Hypertension be Treated? Yes" Controversies in Therapeutics, Lasagna, L. (ed) W.B.Saunders, 1980. National Academy of Sciences,"An Evaluation of the Salmonella Problem", a report to the US Dept of Agriculture and FDA, prepared by the Committee on Salmonella, National Research Council, 1969 Stoller,K.,"Feeding an Epidemic" Animals Agenda, May 1987 pg 32-33 Lindahl, O., "Vegetarian Regimen with Reduced Medication in the Treatment of Bronchial Asthma" Journal of Asthma, 22:44, 1985.
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