The Power and Promise of a Plant-Based Diet

Research has clearly demonstrated that healthy lifestyle choices could prevent 90 percent of type 2 diabetes, and there’s strong consensus that diet is the kingpin. Adopting smart diet and lifestyle choices after the onset of diabetes can change the course of the disease and, in many cases, reverse it altogether.

We know this from studies of people with diabetes who made significant changes to their diets. In studies using very-low-calorie diets, reversal of insulin resistance has been reported within seven days. A more gradual reversal of insulin resistance has been reported with the use of whole-foods, plant-based diets that are less restrictive. The reason this approach is successful is because such diets disable the drivers of insulin resistance.