You know something big is up when the world’s second-largest reinsurer, Swiss Re, has its eye on the future of diabetes treatment. And when the reinsurer hosts a global four-day conference casting serious doubt on mainstream medical treatment for type 2 diabetes. In other words, speakers said at the June conference, conventional medicine keeps diabetic patients sick, fat and drug-dependent. That makes messages emanating from the conference that much more groundbreaking. Among them are that type 2 diabetes is not chronic, progressive and degenerative; it can be reversed, even put into remission. Low-carbohydrate, high-fat (LCHF) diets are safe, effective methods of reversing it without drugs or invasive bariatric (stomach) surgery. Conference speakers also slated official low-fat, high-carb dietary guidelines as contributing to global epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes (or "diabesity" as doctors now call the twin incidence) and need radical revision.
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