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I was just thinking (I should probably stop thinking and just go to bed at this point, but...) if most carbohydrates come from plants, how much success do people have controlling diabetes while adhering to a plant based diet?
Is the reason some people make it to old age without developing diabetes even after a life time of eating fruit and cake (my 83yo aunt for one) because they only ate small amounts and weren't overeating and probably had a more active (laborious) lifestyle? Or is it because there was just a whole lot less processed food (with added sugars and seed oils) creeping into their diets so the cake they ate was homemade?
And the meats they ate came from animals that were taken to pastures rather than feedlots? (I was talking to my Serbian husband about his 97yo nonna and how during the first half of her life, the pork she was eating would have come from pigs who were allowed to roam in the oak forests to forage for acorns.)
But seriously, plants means vegetables, but also grains and fruits, and most of those are off the menu (or at least limited), aren't they?
I can understand a plant based diet for most of your life must help us not become diabetic in the first place, right? But once you are diabetic, can you really turn things around while still eating grains and fruits, and even legumes with your vegetables?
Is the reason some people make it to old age without developing diabetes even after a life time of eating fruit and cake (my 83yo aunt for one) because they only ate small amounts and weren't overeating and probably had a more active (laborious) lifestyle? Or is it because there was just a whole lot less processed food (with added sugars and seed oils) creeping into their diets so the cake they ate was homemade?
And the meats they ate came from animals that were taken to pastures rather than feedlots? (I was talking to my Serbian husband about his 97yo nonna and how during the first half of her life, the pork she was eating would have come from pigs who were allowed to roam in the oak forests to forage for acorns.)
But seriously, plants means vegetables, but also grains and fruits, and most of those are off the menu (or at least limited), aren't they?
I can understand a plant based diet for most of your life must help us not become diabetic in the first place, right? But once you are diabetic, can you really turn things around while still eating grains and fruits, and even legumes with your vegetables?