Diabetes: can you really eat to beat it?
I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes about a year and a half ago, at the time I had an HBA1C of 8.2 (6.0 is the top end of normal). The first thing I did when I got home was google &quot;cure for diabetes&quot;, the newcastle diet is what came up. After 6 months of the usual medication (metformin etc.) I decided to give it a go. You can see my log, which includes medication, supplements, exercise, total calories per day and BG readings 5 times a day[1]. You can see that it took me just 12 days to come off the medication and that in the following 2 months I was able to maintain excellent BG control.<p>A year later I&#x27;m still off the medication, my last HBA1C was 5.7 which is considered normal. Maintaining that does require daily exercise (and I do mean _every_ day) and good diet management but I&#x27;ve found it a fairly easy regime to follow (half an hour of 80% intensity is enough most days).<p>My quality of life is now excellent (it was terrible on the medication) and I&#x27;m able to eat a little more freely. The only big differences regarding diet are that I now only drink a couple of times a month and I don&#x27;t go near anything with wheat flour in it.<p>EDIT: google docs doesn&#x27;t seem to allow me to share the docs publicly (I can only share with specific email addresses or within my domain) so I&#x27;ve made them available as csv and excel files.<p>[1]<p>CSV - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;tr1xwd3l6ziiows&#x2F;newcastle_diet.csv?dl=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;tr1xwd3l6ziiows&#x2F;newcastle_diet.csv...</a><p>Excel - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;12tjf23oz7ihq4d&#x2F;newcastle_diet.xlsx?dl=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;12tjf23oz7ihq4d&#x2F;newcastle_diet.xls...</a>