The recommended intake of carbohydrates for people with type 2 diabetes is all over the map. For example, the Centers for Disease Control notes that people with diabetes should get around half of their calories from carbs. Since one gram of carbohydrate contains four calories, someone eating 2,000 calories per day would consume around 200 grams of carbohydrates. But a 2019 literature review of articles related to the reversal of type 2 diabetes found that 94 percent of people who consume a low-carb diet of under 130 grams per day were able to discontinue their diabetes medication—and after one year, 84 percent were still in remission. Additionally, 95 percent of those who consumed a very-low-carb diet of 20 to 30 carbs per day — essentially a keto diet — were able to reduce or discontinue taking diabetes medication after just 24 weeks.