Increasing weight, rising blood sugar, higher doses of medication, and worsening complications. Does this sound like your daily struggle with diabetes? Then here’s good news for you. A dietary programme based on breakthrough research led by Dr Neal Barnard, an adjunct associate professor of medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine, has revealed that people with type 2 diabetes can improve dramatically, by just making “simple, but powerful changes to their daily diet”.
Dr Nandita Shah, a homoeopathic physician who claims to have reversed diabetes in numerous patients, says diet changes are the cornerstone to treating type 2 diabetes. Current diet recommendations require restricting portion sizes, measuring and weighing foods, and limiting carbohydrate intake. Dr Barnard’s research suggests that a different dietary approach may be more effective and easier to follow.
“It is the high fat intake which prevents the insulin from working. All animal products have fats, including milk. So step one is to cut off animal products,” she explains.
Dr Shah, who organises seminars titled ‘Peas Versus Pills’, starts by teaching patients to cook tasty and healthy meals. “We try to rid people of the thought that if they don’t use oil, the food won’t taste good,” she says. “We ask patients to eat everything that comes from a plant, be it vegetables or fruits. The only condition is they should eat the fruits, not drink fruit juice,” she explains. “Secondly, patients are encouraged to eat whole rice instead of white rice. Lastly, instead of oil, use, grated coconut, sesame, peanut, to get the flavour of oil,” says Dr Shah.
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