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Thank you for the thread Liberty.

I don’t know much about diabetes, but I do know a thing or two about weight loss. My dad was a skinny relatively healthy diabetic (gym teacher who actually enjoyed exercise), so I guess weight-loss alone is not sufficient for treating diabetes. (Apparently even skinny people who like exercise have to watch their sugar intake.)

Dad always said the best exercise is whatever you can stick to. He was a big fan of teaching others to take regular walks. Since you don’t have to change your clothes, drive to a gym, shower after etc., and since it is easy, it is the exercise that people are mostly likely to stick to.

1.) One famous doctor, a cardiologist, prescribed all sorts of weight-loss programs for his patients and, having an open mind, eventually realized that the diet that works best (low-carb vs low-fat, vs low sugar vs whole food etc.) is whatever people stick to.

2.) Another, started by asking “why did America used to be one of the healthiest nations on earth and in a few short decades become the fattest and one of the least healthy?”

He studied what the WW2 generation ate, vs what people ate each decade after and found our calorie intake did not increase much, though we did switch from whole foods and more protein to boxed and microwaved foods, which are packed and packed with cheap carbs.

Then he studied what Americans drank during each decade and found EXACTLY the huge upswing in calories one would expect. Drinks are to blame, eating patterns, not so much. It was groundbreaking and valuable research until he lost his reputation when he started trying to package and sell his own high-protein diet plan.

That’s my 50-cents.

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