Dietary Changes:
Consider changing your diet as follows in order to be healthier and possibly require less medications:
1) No bread, pasta, refined grains, cereals (these convert to sugar and worsen diabetes –
Better choice: veggies, whole grains, and consider raw foods: see www.rawfoods.com
Oils and non-trans fatty acids are good for you. See http://www.oilofpisces.com/diabetes.html
2) No more diet sodas and artificial sweetners see http://www.truthaboutsplenda.com/factvsfiction/index.html and http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/
Better choice: water with lemon
3) No more coffee
Better choice: Green tea see http://chinesefood.about.com/library/weekly/aa011400a.htm
4) No more dairy (that means: no more milk, cheese yogurt, coffee black only)!
Don’t Drink Your Milk – read it and think!
Better choice: rice milk, almond milk, water
“Studies have suggested that bovine serum albumin is the milk protein responsible for the onset of
diabetes.”
“In lieu of the recent evidence that cow’s milk protein may be implicated in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus, we believe that the Committee on Nutrition should clarify whether cow’s milk is ever appropriate for children and whether or not infant formulas that are based on cow’s milk protein are appropriate alternatives to breast milk.” Pediatrics, July, 1992
“Studies have suggested that bovine serum albumin is the milk protein responsible for the onset of diabetes… Patients with insulin- dependent diabetes mellitus produce antibodies to cow milk proteins that participate in the development of islet dysfunction… Taken as a whole, our findings suggest that an active response in patients with IDDM (to the bovine protein) is a feature of the autoimmune response.”
“In lieu of the recent evidence that cow’s milk protein may be implicated in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus, we believe that the Committee on Nutrition should clarify whether cow’s milk is ever appropriate for children and whether or not infant formulas that are based on cow’s milk protein are appropriate alternatives to breast milk.” Pediatrics, July, 1992: 89
“Antibodies to bovine beta-casein are present in over a third of IDDM patients and relatively non-existent in healthy individuals.” LANCET, October, 1996, 348
“Cow’s milk proteins are unique in one respect: in industrialized countries they are the first foreign proteins entering the infant gut, since most formulations for babies are cow milk-based. The first pilot stage of our IDD prevention study found that oral exposure to dairy milk proteins in infancy resulted in both cellular and immune response…this suggests the possible importance of the gut immune system to the pathogenesis of IDD.” LANCET, Dec 14, 1996
“Introduction of dairy products and high milk consumption during childhood may increase the child’s risk of developing juvenile diabetes.” Diabetologia 1994;37(4):381-387
“These new studies, and more than 20 well-documented previous ones, have prompted one researcher to say the link between milk and juvenile diabetes is ‘very solid’.” Diabetes Care 1994;17(12)
“The National Dairy Board’s Slogan, ”˜Milk. It does a body good,’ sounds a little hollow these days.”
Scientific American, October, 1992