However, a high fat diet of the essential fatty acids may be better than carbos. Patients on the American Diabetic Assoc. These put them at risk for heart disease. And less dairy and meat fat. Dennis Burkitt noted little diabetes among the natives of East Africa, because of the high fiber diet and little sugar.
Diabetes has a genetic component, but the diet can keep it from becoming manifest.
Their primitive diet was mesquite pods, acorns, yellow and white tepary beans, lima beans, and the local corn. These desert plants have large quantities of amylose, a starch that is absorbed slowly. Magnesium deficiency may be a factor in high blood pressure among nondiabetics and diabetics. Magnesium is necessary for glucose transport and is part of numerous enzymes involved in glucose metabolism. Diabetics with retinopathy had lower blood levels of magnesium compared with diabetics with no retinopathy.