Diabetes is not necessarily a one-way street. Early studies suggest that persons with type 2 diabetes can improve and, in some cases, even reverse the disease by switching to an unrefined, vegan diet. “I was amazed at how powerful the vegan diet was right from the beginning. The blood sugars and weight just started falling off.” By Andrew Nicholson, M.D.
Both forms of diabetes, childhood and adult, are rare in parts of the world where people's meals are based on starches. For cases of childhood diabetes the explanation is cow's milk consumption. Cow's milk protein fed to young children causes an autoimmune reaction that causes the body to direct antibodies to the child's pancreas...