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Professor Tim Noakes was diagnosed with diabetes after three months on a lchf diet. How is this possible?

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You were diagnosed diabetic three months into your diet. Critics say that proves your diet doesn’t work, and caused your diabetes?

That’s unbelievable logic: if you do one thing – eat a high-carb diet for 33 years – then change it for three months, what you did for the previous 396 months is irrelevant. In other words, the diabetes epidemic is from everyone across the world suddenly eating high-fat diets. So, let’s get back to facts: my father died of Type 2 diabetes which puts me at a 10-fold increased risk. Unfortunately, for 33 years, I followed Diabetes Association guidelines that said as long as I exercised and ate a high-carb diet, I’d never get diabetes. They were very, very wrong.

I admit I don't know much about diabetes, but from everything I've read about lchf, I thought it would reverse insulin resistance and prevent type 2 diabetes.

Resident smart people....help?

http://www.biznews.com/health/2014/...diet-dangerous/