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Was there really no research before this that showed that losing weight was beneficial for sufferers of Type II diabetes?
by gjem97 9y ago
Was there really no research before this that showed that losing weight was beneficial for sufferers of Type II diabetes?
- phakding 9y agoThere definitely was. I remember telling this to my college roommate few years ago after he gradually gained lot of weight and was diagnosed as pre-diabetic.
- PoachedSausage 9y agoThere has been plenty. I tried my first multi-day water only fast around 2005 after reading about it in a book written by an M.D. who used fasting to treat various illnesses. I can't remember the name though. The article has some shocking statistics but most shocking to me was that the youngest person in the study was 20 years old, type 2 diabetic at 20. I think the reason that drugs are the usual solution is simply that it is really really hard to get people to change their diets and/or fast.
- crusso 9y agoThat's the surprising thing. How can weight-loss and diet improvements to treat type II diabetes be some kind of revelation? Would diet approaches not have shown this correlation many decades ago?