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This is an excellent article that will be of interest to those among us researching the link between chronic disease and diet. It is fairly concise given the depth of the subject but it is well written and contains a lot of pertinent information. Her other blogs are well worth a read and a subscription to her blog:

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The question is, how to determine that, you are insulin resistant or your pancreas does not produce any insulin or produces less insulin? Insulin can not be measured in the blood and so we take a test called C-Peptide. When you go to a doctor, they just recommend some pills and if the pills don't work, more pills and if they don't work, Insulin. But we really need insulin or diet control and lifestyle changes can do the trick? When I stayed at Jindal Institute at Bangalore for 15 days, I lost 10 Kgs and my Diabetes disappeared. But at Chennai in Dr, Mohan's clinic, I was told that I do have to take Insulin as long as I live. Contradictory?

Any answers?

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excellent article , even a layman can understand the issue without even knowing much about Anatomy of humans.

the crux of the article is the low carb diet is recommended and fat inclusion is stressed.

this is line with the LCHF recommended by the experienced diabetics ,which may b a misnomer for them now.

THE information revolution is really phenomenal in medicine.

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Dear friends

i have yet to understand that if a person is resistant to own endogenous insulin how exogenous insulin given by injection can act to control blood sugar.

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suramoStar

Yet if it's a case of ir and β cells are intact then there would be more endogenous insulin because of the feed back mechanism. Yes very obese diabetics do benefit from weigh reduction but ir in a thin or normal weight diabetics is what i have yet to understand.

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