Can a vegetarian diabetic diet reverse diabetes? There are a number of studies which have found a vegetarian diabetic diet to be very advantageous to the treatment of diabetes. In fact, one study feature in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition describes some of the benefits as follows:

• Whole-grain consumption has been shown through cohort studies to reduce the risk of both type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
• Nuts such as almonds, viscous fibers from oats and barley, soy proteins, and plant sterols, which are often part of a vegetarian diet, reduce serum lipids.
• Substituting soy or other vegetable proteins for animal protein has been known to decrease many of the problems concerning kidney damage and diabetes.

In 2007, it was reported by ABC news that a vegan diet may have the power to reverse and prevent diabetes. Researchers reported that “people who ate a low-fat vegan diet, cutting …