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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A low-fat vegan diet reduced symptoms of peripheral neuropathy among patients with type 2 diabetes in the randomized, controlled Dietary Intervention for Chronic Diabetic Neuropathy Pain (DINE) study.
After 20 weeks, 17 patients who were assigned to the vegan diet group were more likely than were 18 control patients to have lost weight, to have reductions in pain scores, and to have neurologic improvements in their foot neuropathy.
The findings demonstrate "the potential of a low-fat vegan diet as a treatment for diabetic neuropathy pain," Anne E. Bunner, Ph.D., reported at the annual meeting of the American Association of Diabetes Educators. Other treatment options for diabetic neuropathy offer pain relief, but do not address the underlying nerve damage.
http://www.clinicalendocrinologynew...hy-pain/a89e1046ebede4537067556fe022e05d.html
After 20 weeks, 17 patients who were assigned to the vegan diet group were more likely than were 18 control patients to have lost weight, to have reductions in pain scores, and to have neurologic improvements in their foot neuropathy.
The findings demonstrate "the potential of a low-fat vegan diet as a treatment for diabetic neuropathy pain," Anne E. Bunner, Ph.D., reported at the annual meeting of the American Association of Diabetes Educators. Other treatment options for diabetic neuropathy offer pain relief, but do not address the underlying nerve damage.
http://www.clinicalendocrinologynew...hy-pain/a89e1046ebede4537067556fe022e05d.html