Type 2 diabetes is reversible based on work at UCLA.
http://www.truthpublishing.com/haltdiabetes_p/yprint-cat21267.htm
The Diabetes Foundation has corrupt connections to the drug industry.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/05/18/how-corrupted-drug-companies-deceive-and-manipulate-your-doctor.aspx
"What happens if a physician or other person speaks up about these conflicts of interest? What happens to the proverbial whistle-blower?
"Intimidating phone calls and direct threats, for starters.
"In one case, Dr. Buse, an endocrinologist who is the incoming president of the American Diabetes Association, presented data in 1999 about his concerns about the risks of Avandia. Dr. Buse was intimidated with multiple phone calls by drug company officials. They suggested he could be financially liable to the company for $4 billion in lost revenues due to his “unscrupulous remarks.” "
Traditional Chinese medicine has value for treating diabetes.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/07/060731113333.htm
But there are bills in the Senate - S 510 and S 3767 - put there by the pharmaceutical industry that would remove all supplements - from Chinese herbal remedies to vitamins. This is how threatened the drug companies are by treatments that can actually treat diabetes harmlessly - versus their Avandia which has caused over 80,000 heart attacks so far but the FDA won't take it off the market and has approved testing it on kids.
Here is a Jewish cardiologist on the stunning value on one supplement (one you will lose if these bills go through).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdm7AS8Qa-s
Yale found that friendly bacteria, such as is found in unpasteurized milk, is preventive of type 1 diabetes and that we have overdone "hygiene" to an unhealthy degree.
http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6043
There is value in germs
http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2009/12/germs.html