Donna van Zyl, Specialist Diabetic Dietician talks about diets for people with Diabetes. She explains that you can chose your type of diet depending on your type of Diabetes as well as how long you've had Diabetes. If you are in the early stages of Type 2 Diabetes Donna talks about possibly trying to reverse Diabetes.
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Alright, so looking at something like type 2 diabetes, it would also depend on the phase of type 2. If you are newly diagnosed, there is new research regarding different types of diets to try and manage the type 2 diabetes and to obtain remission for type 2 diabetes. So if you are newly diagnosed, we want to optimally lose weight to try and achieve a remission for type 2 diabetes. And with this, they have done research, for example, the direct trial where they have engaged in low carbohydrate diets as well as low calorie diets. And with these low carbohydrate diets, they still focus on a Mediterranean type intake where avoiding processed foods as well as having a lower red meat intake and rather more fish, etc. So that has become quite a popular thing for type 2 diabetes. When we're looking at type 1 diabetes, no specific diet for type 1 diabetes, but people tend to, you know, sort of move to a little bit low-carb or more mediterranean to trying to achieve glycemic control.
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