The #1 Food You MUST Avoid to FIGHT Type 2 Diabetes (hint: it’s NOT sugar!)
The #1 food you should avoid to fight diabetes (hint: it’s NOT sugar!)If you listen to mainstream medicine, I’m sure you’ve only heard that you need to avoid sugar if you have diabetes or are pre-diabetic. But what if I told you that mindset totally misses the mark and ignores perhaps a MUCH MORE important food that increases your risk?
According to Dr. Ray Peat, PhD, “Diabetes is just one of the “terminal” diseases that can be caused by polyunsaturated vegetable oils.”
What does he mean by polyunsaturated oils? He speaks to any oil that has a high percentage of polyunsaturated fats, for example:
- Corn oil
- Soybean oil
- Safflower oil
- Walnut oil
- Canola oil
- Peanut oil
- Trans fats (artificially created)
These oils are VERY new to the food supply and were not part of the diet until about 100 years ago. Yet they are common in almost all restaurants and processed foods across America because they are incredibly cheap.
So what’s so bad about these fats? The polyunsaturated fats:
- Have a direct correlation with increased heart disease
- Interfere with the function of the thyroid gland – impair the metabolic rate
- Block hormone secretion
- May contribute to high cholesterol
- Damage all systems of the body if in excess: hormonal system, immune system & oxidative damage
- Interfering with digestion
- Decrease energy production
- Block protein digestion in the stomach
Peat continues that “coconut oil, in diabetes as in other degenerative diseases, is highly protective.” All the more reason to ditch the polyunsaturated oils in your pantry, and opt for real (saturated) fats like butter, ghee, coconut oil, and natural animal fats!
So what else can you do to help prevent diabetes? Take personal responsibility and change your diet. According to Dr. Peat, diet is key: “I think the basic anti-aging diet is also the best diet for the prevention and treatment of diabetes, scleroderma, and the various ‘connective tissue diseases’. This would emphasize high protein, low unsaturated fats, low iron intake, and high antioxidant intake, with moderate or low starch intake. In practice, this means that a major part of the diet should be milk, cheese, eggs, shellfish, fruits, and coconut oil, with vitamin E and salt as the safest supplements.”
Source:hlthfitnez.blogspot.com, nutritionallywealthy.com
