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Reversing Type 2 with a Vegan diet?

Hi @muckifunkie,

This graphic might be helpful. It compares the result of the vegan intervention (in yellow) with the results from the Virta Health ketogenic study (in green). Found the graphic on the Tim Noakes twitter page.

Unfortunately Dr Barnard is still able to have ample input into guidelines. I have tried to find better results from him, but haven't been able to....
 

I never made the sweet things from her books but did make a lot of the savoury things which are very high carb, although low GI. Maybe coincidence but my veggie diet (all homemade) didn’t seem to do be any favours. Feel like a different person on LCHF!
 
I too had been almost vegan, low meat, fish , only horrible low fa cheese, High whole grains for over 10years before my 3x bypass and the T2D diagnosis.
I have heard that there have been good results (back in the 1950s) from an extreme low fat, low protein, high carb diet,. But I'm unsure of the validity of the data, however what isn't in doubt is how hard it was to stick to the diet which was less than 5% fat ( meaning most veg were excluded as too high in fat. The Dr behind it was accused of whipping participants - though he claimed in his defence that they asked to be whipped in order to motivate them to stick to the diet. Rice, fruit and Fruit juice. Of course the diet was deficient and supplements had to be taken

I still don't understand how such extremely high carb could have worked for T2D. Certainly any modern T2D using a meter would have quickly bailed out after just a few days of extremely high BG spikes.
 

Ian - I don't know of the study you are referring to, so will make a very general post to say that life was very different in the 50s. Fewer ordinary families had cars. Manual labour work was much more common for both genders, and for the married women, who more often than not would stay at home with the children, she would would spend far more time on domestic labour - no Dyson hoovers, or automatic washer driers, and of course no Chelsea tractors for dropping the little ones to school.

All in all, their lifestyles possibly had a better chance of coping with the higher carb elements to the diet.
 
All in all, their lifestyles possibly had a better chance of coping with the higher carb elements to the diet.

Turn that on its head of course and we are basically saying that higher levels of physical activity are a massive factor.
 

Dr Kempner..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_diet
for your edification and delight (especially the whipping part)...
 
Turn that on its head of course and we are basically saying that higher levels of physical activity are a massive factor.

That isn't what I am saying at all. What I am saying is the 50s were different days in more than just diet.
 
That isn't what I am saying at all. What I am saying is the 50s were different days in more than just diet.
I was born in the fifties. I do remember those days. They were as you described and people were more active then. Housework (less appliances) , manual labour. Walking and cycling to work as opposed to the Chelse Tractor to drop the kids off to school. All sounds like a higher level of activity to me but you could include that in a change of lifestyle. You are correct.
 
Nice balanced post. Thanks.
 
People who can survive on a vegetarian diet might be genetically adapted to do so - we are, after all a fairly diverse lot, despite several 'pinch points' in our evolution where the entire Human race was represented by a few thousand, or even a few hundred individuals.
 
Surely everyone can survive on a vegetarian diet, whether that's longer or in better health than on any other diet is the question.
 
A vegetarian diet includes low carb and keto options. It is not automatically high carb.
 
My sister and I recently did a dna test in researching our family tree. It was very interesting that our history and genetic mix is varied but predominantly high meat eating people. Maybe I was never actually supposed to eat grains after all!
 
[QUOTE="Flora123, post: 2169778, member: 484460"Maybe I was never actually supposed to eat grains after all![/QUOTE]

Not sure anyone was really.. they are their core grass seeds after all...
 

If you are talking about the study that Dr Barnard uses to support his work, then in all likelyhood it is one of the ADVENT studies carried out by the 7th Day Adventists. They had 3 attempts to get the results they wanted. The first study (ADVENT) never saw the light of day as it was deemed to be heavily biassed in its methodology and analysis. It used a closed society (the church congregation) who were already mainly vegetarian by decree, and so was not representative of the general populace at large. The second (ADVENT1) had a similar outcome in that it was based on the same sample source (the Church) and was conducted during Lent when most adherents were fasting and eating unleavened bread. The one that survives is ADVENT2 which is quoted by many nutritionists and environmentalists the world over as being proof that the vegan diet will cure all manner of illnesses incl T2D and that it was suitable for diabetics in general. The team used the PETO analysis methods on a prospective or cohort / epidemiological framework and drew cause and effect conclusions from data that was incorrectly extrapolated by the faulty analysis. The PETO method of statistics has been banned now for "being open to bias an misinterpretation" since it used weighting factors that were chosen by the team, but which did not need to be declared in the analysis, so that results could be massaged, and no one could reproduce the results since the factoring was not declared. So ADVENT2 is seriously flawed and cannot be used to prove anything.

As far as I know ADVENT2 is the only study that examins the effect of an ultra low fat / high carb diet as being suitable for diabetics. The Mormons who have a similar approach to diets and lifestyles in this respect are currently noting a large increase in T2D among their congregation, so it does not seem to be the panacea in the real life situation, even in a closed community.
 
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