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Type 2 Diabetes Is Reversible Without Drugs via Low-Carb Diets
“Even type two diabetes was irreversible. Once on insulin, always on insulin, basically, until you get taken down by the side effects. And now people are showing that on these diets, and maybe others as well, but they're showing that this is a reversible diseas…”
The Sugar Industry Amplified Existing Dogma Rather Than Inventing Doubt
“Unlike the tobacco industry, so the tobacco industry's job was to somehow try to convince the world that the research community was wrong, and to sow confusion about what the research community was saying. What the sugar industry had to do was remind the resea…”
Diverse Global Populations Develop Obesity When Adopting Western Diets
“Inuits near the Arctic Circle or Native Americans or First Nations people or you know, African populations or South Pacific Islanders and Middle Eastern populations or Southeast Asians, they all
Experience obesity and diabetes epidemics when their environment …”
US Diabetes Prevalence Has Surged 700% Since the Late 1950s
“In the U.S., and according to the Centers for Disease Control in the U.S., since the late 19 fifties, diabetes prevalence has increased 700%.”
Former WHO Chief Admitted Odds of Stopping Chronic Disease Are Near Zero
“The Director General of the UN, a woman named Margaret Chan, a year ago referred to them as slow motion disasters, and she predicted, this was fascinating, this was at a keynote address of the National Academies of Medicine in Washington, and she gave a number…”
Hospital Records Show US Diabetes Rates Were Almost Nonexistent Before 1850
“And you find out, for instance, in the U.S. That diabetes rates, ah, in, were virtually nonexistent, even though it was a very, a relatively easy disease to diagnose You saw very little sign of it pre-eighteen 50, and even, for the most part, pre-eighteen seve…”