Diabetics are reminded that they need to control their blood sugar carefully through use of insulin and/or oral drugs. Weight control is emphasized to help this control. More drugs are prescribed to manage cholesterol levels.

Avoiding diabetes in the first place is also discussed. Usually this is through weight control using “healthy diet”, not overeating and exercise.

Almost never do we hear “what really matters”- avoiding premature death and having a life free of disability due to chronic disease. Diabetics assume that their drug cocktails will accomplish this. But this is not what happens. Insulin prolongs life for those who need it but oral drugs are not helpful in this regard even when they successfully help control blood sugar. Even those on insulin usually die prematurely and often suffer the common complications of diabetes:

Heart attacks, angina and heart failure

Strokes, fatal or with permanent paralysis

Kidney failure (diabetes the most common cause in the USA)

Blindness (again, diabetes the most common cause in the USA)

Neuropathy which can cause severe chronic pain

Foot and leg amputations

Cancer which is much more frequent in diabetics

Hopeless? Not at all. Most of these dreadful consequences of diabetes are avoidable by eating a whole food plant based diet. Not only avoidable, but sometimes reversible. I’ve seen angina, kidney failure, blindness and neuropathy reversed with this diet. It should be tried for those who have some of the severe complications of diabetes but why even risk getting them at all?

For a more complete discussion use this website’s link to my YouTube talk about diabetes.