Controlling Diabetes

The bottom line is that the case for using a plant-based diet to reduce the burden of diabetes and improve overall health has never been stronger.

Give a group of pre-diabetics maybe about three quarters of a cup of millet a day, and within six weeks, their insulin resistance dropped so much their pre-diabetic fasting blood sugars turned into non pre-diabetic blood sugars.

Diabetes is a global public health epidemic. Although oral hypoglycemic medications and injected insulin are the mainstay treatments of diabetes and are effective in controlling high blood sugars, they have prominent side effects and fail to significantly alter the course of diabetic complications. Common side effects include weight gain, swelling, [and] liver disease.