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[kalantai]

Plan to analyse impact of vegan diet on diabetes
A trans-Atlantic collaboration is on the cards to analyse the impact of a vegan diet on diabetes in India. Neal Barnard, a US-based clinical researcher, plans to study if the results of his American experiment with the low-fat vegan diet will be similar in India as well. Dr. Barnard, who has been studying the effects of the vegan diet, a vegetarian diet that keeps out milk and milk products as well, has found that it controls blood sugar three times more effectively than a conventional diabetes diet did. His most recent study, involving 99 people with Type 2 Diabetes (more common in India) in the US, proved that the effect was stronger than using medication.
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[AndyBa]

wow that is great news.. but,
I remember seeing on animal planet that if animals in the zoo a fed by people they can also get diabetes. So I believe diabetes is more related to over processed foods which can be vegan as well. That's just an idea..

[BigBecka]

Certainly overprocessed foods usually contain sugar syrups, which are linked to developing Type II Diabetes.

However, I have also heard of diabetics being advised to cut out red meat and dairy.

I remember from when I was on low-carb diets (before I turned vegetarian!), that milk actually contains a certain amount of sugar. Of course, it's not much compared to other foods, but it was limited on the plan I was following. The following excerpt links red meat consumption to diabetes: http://www.vrg.org/journal/vj2005issue2 ... update.htm