Is the Mediterranean Diet for people with Type 2 diabetes?

Has anyone that has type 2, been successful with this diet? Any other diet? Thanks!|||Not explicitly. While I do have some issue with the diet (its de-emphasis on saturated fats, which I believe are healthy and its support of consuming lots legumes and cereals), it's probably a lot healthier than the average American diet.



I do know some diabetics who've had success on this diet, but blood sugar control is very individual. What works for you may not work for others and vice versa.



If this is a diet you're interested in trying, just make sure that you regularly test your blood sugar (fasting and after meals) as you experiment. If your fasting blood sugar is routinely over 110 mg/dL and your two-hour post-meal blood sugar is often over 140 mg/dL, then the diet may just contain too many carbohydrates for you.|||The best diet for people with Type 2 diabetes is a low carbohydrate diet. They can more or less eat anything they like, as long as it is low in carbohydrate. This is because diabetes is primarily a disease of carbohydrate metabolism. Diabetics cannot metabolize or cannot easily metabolize carbohydrate. It is like a nut allergy sufferer - the last thing you would feed them would be cashews, almonds and macadamias, even if all those nuts are excellent sources of minerals and good fats.