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Managing Type 2 Diabetes | Dr Neal Barnard

The Proof with Simon Hill

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Diabetes - What Can a Vegan Diet Do for Diabetes?

In 2003, we were funded by the National Institutes of Health to do a head-to-head trial of a Lofad vegan diet. The idea was that would the plant-based diet be better? And one of the first people who came into the study was a man named Vance. After about three weeks, he said, you know, I thought this was supposed to be hard. But over a year, he lost 60 pounds. His outside doctor stopped his medications, all his diabetes medications and after a year, when we did our final blood tests, on no medication at all, his blood sugar control was totally normal. It was like a 12-year-old kid.

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