Welcome to the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, where we teach you how to sit in the driver's seat of your diabetes health for the rest of your life.

We'll teach you how to reverse insulin resistance, achieve your ideal body weight, gain energy,

and get your best A1C following more than 85 years of evidence-based research in the mastering

diabetes program.

Our program teaches you how to reverse pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes and

how to simplify your life with type 1 diabetes by maximizing your insulin sensitivity

using food as medicine. We're on a bold mission to reverse insulin resistance in 1

million people. We're glad to have you joining us.

All right, we are very excited to have with us today, Dr. Michael Greger of NutritionFacts.org.

He is a physician, an author, and an internationally recognized leader in the plant-based

movement, and he can talk

about a number of very sophisticated public health issues. He's the author of How Not to Die,

and he recently released the How Not to Die cookbook, both of which are blockbusters. Thank you so

much for being here with us today, Dr. Greger. So happy to be here.

Okay, so due to the brilliance of the low-carbohydrate diet,

many people with diabetes are terrified of eating fruit

under the impression that fruit causes weight gain

and over-secretion of insulin and insulin resistance.

Talk about fruit and its role in diabetes.

So where this comes from is the fact that industrial sugars, right? So table sugar, high

fructose corn syrup, in excess contributes to some very serious issues such as hypertension,

non-hacoholic fatty liver disease,

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