I cured mine. I don't think there was anything physically wrong with me that caused my diabetes, just something terribly wrong with the food I ate. I didn't eat particularly unhealthily, just too much processed food made from whole grains (believing that was healthy for me). What sets my hair on fire is when people say that if you go back to eating what caused your type 2 diabetes you would get it again so you're not cured. That's a very silly argument.
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Yes, certainly to be told to go back to certain eating habits is crazy to say the least after all the improvements with the new habits are showing... I personally would stick to what gives me the greatest level of health.
Sure I can keep normal BG's while eating carbs, but I am certain I am not cured of the factors that make me not to tolerate carbs as well as others do, and I have serious doubt that will ever ever change.
That's the aspect that matters here because it influences food choices. Remission of diabetic symptoms is certainly, for me, a better term to describe what is achieved, remission makes me aware that there is something, in this case food choices that might be better for me than others.
The perfect example is that the nurse, understanding that diabetes is high BG's and therefore by showing normal numbers it is reversed or cured, sends the patient to eat cakes and pizzas, because everything is fine now... isn't it? Using your logic that is exactly what she is doing.
In my case, the only thing I am cured of is of my high BGs for the moment. From that point of view I am not diabetic (if diabetes is only high BGs but it isn't as far as I am concerned)
I know for a fact that I am insulin resistant (overweigh or normal weight, high carb or low carb dieting) and I have been for as long as I can remember, and hyperinsulinemic, and to what extent there is damage to my pancreas I don't know. I'm trying to protect it though. As well as my kidneys, my eyes, my feet...
There is a lot of debate around what comes first, hyperinsulinemia or insulin resistance, and the relationships between the two... there are not clear cut answers.
I am really happy there is nothing physically wrong with you that caused your diabetes... I wish I could say the same about me... but I can't.
Neither can people with type 1 diabetes... I think it would be good to remember that there are many varieties of conditions called diabetes, and even type 2 diabetes, different genetic variations and types on insulin resistance, different cultural backgrounds and eating styles... plus all the things that science is yet to discover about all this stuff.
Certainly there are wrong food choices FOR ME that definitely didn't help (plus other factors)... but I wouldn't call them the cause of my diabetes (not even the cause of my high BGs), my insulin resistance, my hyperinsulinemia, and a few other matters that had been with me at different stages in my life.
Certainly, my body copes the best with very little carbs, no shadow of a doubt. And know I can never go back to a free style mindless way of eating without consequences, when I do, I pay it high.
But there are far too many people around me that can eat happily cakes, pizzas and rice, and are slim and happy and healthy that I find it difficult to blame the food per se. If that was the case, all of them would be diabetics by now, and they aren't.
That doesn't mean that what they eat is good or healthy for them (or not), but I certainly don't believe that food is the cause of diabetes. In my case, my inability to cope with certain foods is. Not everyone is like me.