#434: Is a Vegan Diet Really Best for Diabetes?
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Many different diets have been put forward as solutions that treat type 2 diabetes. Some will claim the diet “reverses” diabetes, some say it puts it into “remission”, while others more conservatively recommend a diet to manage diabetes symptoms in a healthy way.
There has been some debate on the use of terms like reversal, cure or resolution. And recently more clarity has been found in defining each.
One of the diets that has been recommended by some for the purposes of “reversing” or treating diabetes is a low-fat, whole food plant-based (WFPB) diet. Specifically, there is a claim that it is superior to other diets in treating diabetes. Some of these claims relate to popular online diet & lifestyle programs that use such a diet. While there is also a number of studies that are commonly cited in support of the claims.
In this episode, we evaluate these claims by looking at the published research in this area, across epidemiology, human intervention trials and mechanistic rationale. We also ponder what it means for something to be the “best” diet to treat a chronic disease.
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| 1:21.8 | let's dive into this episode. Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. This is episode 434 of the podcast. My name is Danny Lennon and as usual I'm here beside Alan Flandigan. |
| 1:31.3 | Alan, how are you today, sir? I am very well. Thank you. I'm about to close a chapter |
| 1:38.1 | on the PhD. So it's a it's a nice time letting the hair down, you know, just in time for spring. |
| 1:46.2 | Yeah, timed perfectly, if I must say so myself. |
| 1:50.8 | And those of you listening may have noticed that upcoming soon, we have a live Sigma event. |
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| 2:04.1 | We have a special guest keynote session with Dr. Deirdre Tobias. |
| 2:07.8 | We also have a lecture from Alan on the day as well and where he's going to be talking about interpreting nutrition studies and some details on that. |
| 2:18.6 | And I believe then you're offering to be able to drink a pint with you. |
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