Media Release: for Immediate Release
The cure for diabetes is at the end of your fork
This year's World Diabetes Day is the time to raise awareness of the link between
diabetes development and the meat-rich Australian diet.
According to Mark Doneddu, president of the Melbourne-based organisation
Vegetarian Network Victoria, consumption of meat and dairy is a leading contributor
to the disease. "The epidemiological research across cultures and within populations
shows a very strong link between animal food and diabetes." Mr Doneddu said.
"Japanese migrants to America who adopt the standard American diet have been
found to have four times the risk of diabetes compared to those who stayed in Japan.
During World War II the rate of diabetes in the UK plummeted along with meat
consumption. There are countless studies showing that those eating the most fat and
the least fibre have the highest diabetes”.
Studies also show that a plant-based diet is a highly effective way to reverse diabetes.
Researchers such as Dr James Anderson and Pritikin Center scientists achieved
spectacular results from a number of clinical trials, with the vast majority of diabetic
patients switching to a high-fibre, high-carbohydrate diet being able to come off
medication in a matter of weeks, including one man who was originally taking 35
shots of insulin a day. These results are documented in journals such as Diabetes Care
and the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
A 2002 review of nine publications citing the use of diets by the Diabetes Prevention
Program Research Group, in the New England Journal of Medicine read "Current
treatment too often revolves around insulin and drug therapy, neglecting diet and
exercise." and concluded that high-carbohydrate, high-fibre diets "...reduce insulin
requirements, improve glycemic control, lower fasting serum cholesterol and
triglyceride values, and promote weight loss."
"We do not need to light beacons of hope that we will one day find a cure for diabetes
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the cure is right here at the end of our forks." said Mr Doneddu. "Diabetes Australia
is currently promoting the World Diabetes Day awards; open to Victorian health
professionals of all levels of training and experience. I hope that the awards will go to
some of the excellent practitioners who have successfully reversed diabetes through
diet therapy, rather than condemning patients to a lifetime of insulin injections."
World Diabetes Day is on November 14.
Follow-up contacts:
Mark Doneddu (VNV President) - 0448 712 063 or mark.doneddu@vnv.org.au
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