In the third installment of our series on Type II Diabetes, Sully discusses the power of diet and exercise for metabolic disease and why there is no one-size-fits-all lifestyle prescription for diabetes.

Part 1

Part 2

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Episode Resources

• Epidemiology of type 2 diabetes
• Diabetes Fact Sheet
• Diet Doctor Podcast #14 — Dr. Robert Lustig

Papers

• Physical Activity/Exercise and Type 2 Diabetes
• Effects of Aerobic and Resistance Training on Hemoglobin A1c Levels in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
• Exercise modulates postreceptor insulin signaling and glucose transport in muscle-specific insulin receptor knockout mice
• Effect of Acute Muscular Exercise on Serum Immunoreactive Insulin Concentration
• Exercise-induced increase in muscle insulin sensitivity
• Protective mechanisms of the Mediterranean diet in obesity and type 2 diabetes
• Effects of a Mediterranean-Style Diet on the Need for Antihyperglycemic Drug Therapy in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Trial
• Prevention and control of type 2 diabetes by Mediterranean diet: A systematic review
• A journey into a Mediterranean diet and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review with meta-analyses
• Metabolic and physiologic improvements from consuming a paleolithic, hunter-gatherer type diet
• Beneficial effects of a Paleolithic diet on cardiovascular risk factors in type 2 diabetes: a randomized cross-over pilot study
• The Beneficial Effects of a Paleolithic Diet on Type 2 Diabetes and Other Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease
• Metabolic and physiologic effects from consuming a hunter-gatherer (Paleolithic)-type diet in type 2 diabetes
• Successful treatment of a patient with obesity, type 2 diabetes and hypertension with the paleolithic ketogenic diet
• Fructose and metabolic diseases: New findings, new questions
• Does fructose consumption contribute to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease?
• The role of fructose-enriched diets in mechanisms of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
• Fructose consumption as a risk factor for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
• Comparison of free fructose and glucose to sucrose in the ability to cause fatty liver
• STUDIES ON THE METABOLISM OF ESKIMOS.
• Added sugar intake and metabolic syndrome in US adolescents: cross-sectional analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005–2012
• Per capita sugar consumption and prevalence of diabetes mellitus – global and regional associations
• Isocaloric fructose restriction and metabolic improvement in children with obesity and metabolic syndrome
• The role of fructose in the pathogenesis of NAFLD and the metabolic syndrome
• Sugar: an excess of anything can harm
• Sugar, Uric Acid, and the Etiology of Diabetes and Obesity
• Added Sugar Intake and Cardiovascular Diseases Mortality Among US Adults
• Added sugar intake and metabolic syndrome in US adolescents: cross-sectional analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005–2012
• Effects of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages on Children
• Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, Serum Uric Acid, and Blood Pressure in Adolescents
• The Relationship of Sugar to Population-Level Diabetes Prevalence: An Econometric Analysis of Repeated CrossSectional Data