I remember many patients use to tell me, they did not eat anything then how my blood glucose is very high? Finally, my understanding was proved in the latest clinical nutrition research.
Between 1980 and 2014, the number of people living with diabetes across the world increased from about 108 million to 422 million. Pharmacological interventions have done little to stop what some have referred to as the diabetes pandemic.

Lifestyle and Diet interventions are the only way to succeed when other approaches have failed. 

Many Doctors ignore Lifestyle and Diet interventions since it requires more time consuming and appears difficult to follow for patients. But It's Simple and Depends on how good the Lifestyle Medicine Therapist educates and motivates the patient regularly. Patients need lot of planning and practical solutions for the daily implementation process.   I remember one of my friend, who is a doctor and in top position in a Medical School in India, told me that Medical Industry suggests if a patient wants to eat more Gulab jamun (a sweet food item in India), give more insulin than advocating not to eat.

A couple of years ago, Medical News Today reported on the first results of a clinical trial, which showed that intensive weight loss programs could help people with type 2 diabetes achieve remission without taking any medication.

The trial was called the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT), and one of its co-leaders was Prof. Roy Taylor from Newcastle University in the United Kingdom.

There are virtually no nutrients in animal-based foods that are not better provided by plants.

Eating animals is a markedly different nutritional experience from eating plants. Plant foods have dramatically more antioxidants, fiber, and minerals than animal foods. In fact, animal foods are almost completely devoid of several of these nutrients plus they have much more cholesterol and fat. Animal foods have slightly more protein than plant foods, along with more B12 and vitamin D, although vitamin D is largely added to milk.

By definition, for a food chemical to be an essential nutrient, it must meet two requirements:

1. The chemical is necessary for healthy human functioning, and

2. The chemical must be something our bodies cannot make on their own, and therefore must be obtained from an outside source

One example of a chemical that is not essential is cholesterol, a component of animal-based food that is nonexistent in plant-based food. While cholesterol is essential for health, our bodies can make all that we require; so we do not need to consume any in food. Therefore, it is not an essential nutrient.

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Many sick people are trying the raw food diet, convinced that heating foods—especially vegetables—destroys disease-fighting nutrients and digestion-enhancing enzymes. But while I’m certainly in favor of anything that gets people to eat more veggies (and I love salads and crudites as much as anyone), recent research contradicts the “raw is always best” contention

Here is Dr. Fuhrman has some specific recommendations…

“With some vegetables, the micronutrients are heat-sensitive and can be destroyed by cooking. But with others, cooking allows the body to absorb more of the beneficial compounds because heat releases the nutrients from the cell matrix to which they are bound.”

Best cooked: By cooking tomato, you break down its cell walls and release more of its lycopene, a cancer-fighting antioxidant. Dr. Fuhrman also suggested cooking carotenoid vegetables (think red, orange, and yellow) such as bell peppers, carrots, and corn, because the heat increases the bioavailability of their nutrients. He particularly recommended that mushrooms be cooked. “Cooking mushrooms for even a few minutes dissipates most of the mild toxins they contain,” he explained. Why eat mushrooms at all if they have toxins? Because they also provide powerful polysaccharides thought to inhibit tumor growth. For instance, one recent study found that eating mushrooms daily was associated with a 64% reduction in breast cancer risk.

This Article is based on Lecture given by Dr. AbazarHabibinia, MD, Director of CAASN (Canadian Academy of Sports Nutrition)

First, everyone needs to Understand How our Immune System Works. 

Your immune system is very fascinating, interesting, and complex.

Components of the Immune System:

• Thymus
• Lymphatic system
• Spleen
• Probiotics
• WBCs consist of:
  
  Read more: 10 Steps to Boost your Immune System Against Corona Virus (Bacterial/Viral) Infection)