I was a type 2 diabetic until last year, when I cured myself and got off blood pressure meds, lost weight and gained energy! Just realized that sounded bizarrely like the start of an infomercial! Don't worry, I'm not selling anything and the solution is free and easier than you think!
And the best part about how I did it is that you don't have to restrict your calories or exercise every day. Good health is available and all you have to do it quit believing the propaganda put out by our government, the AHA, ADA, and the AMA. The food pyramid was created by politicians. Pharmaceutical companies don't want to cure diabetes or heart disease, they just want to endlessly treat them with drugs that have so many side effects that we then need more drugs to treat those. So....
I had type 2 for several years and refused to take the drugs my doctor wanted me to because I knew that they would just make me sicker, not cure me. I tried to control my blood sugars by eating low carb and was pretty successful. I did manage to lose a small amount of weight doing that too. After awhile my blood sugars started creeping back up..... so I was searching the web for other solutions to type 2 and for ways to control my weight. It seemed really obvious that what we've been told to eat just couldn't be correct, because so many of us were eating the "right" way and still gaining weight and getting type 2 and other auto-immune diseases. I chanced upon Marksdailyapple.com and started reading...... and I'm still reading there.
I started eating primal/paleo and also started what is called the Leptin Re-set in September of 2011. My blood sugars were no longer in the diabetic range within 3 weeks! At that point I still had insulin resistance, but that too subsided in the next months. As an added bonus I lost weight effortlessly without ever restricting calories or adding any exercise. I was soon able to discontinue meds for high blood pressure that I'd taken for 25 years.
I feel better and healthier than I've felt since forever.... and I can't imagine going back to eating the SAD (Standard American Diet). My spouse just tolerated what I was doing for 4-6 weeks before joining me in this way of eating and he's effortlessly lost more than 50 lbs and gotten off one of his blood pressure meds. My riding partner (horses) also started eating primal/paleo about the same time that my spouse did (she had thought I was nuts!) and she's gone from a size 14 to a 4!
There are many, many sites that will give you the info you need, I simply recommend Marksdailyapple.com because it's really easy to use and to figure out what primal is about. You can get all the info you need for free or you can buy books if you prefer. Here are a few of the best ones and a video that I really like by a swedish doctor.
http://vimeo.com/couchmode/ancestralhealthsymposium/videos/sort:newest/29464690
http://www.amazon.com/The-Paleo-Answer-Weight-Great/dp/1118016084/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340518567&sr=8-1&keywords=cordain
http://www.amazon.com/The-Paleo-Solution-Original-Human/dp/0982565844/ref=la_B003Z4MQVY_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340518609&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/The-Primal-Blueprint-Reprogram-effortless/dp/0982207786/ref=pd_sim_b_6
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