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Explain how diet is or is not part of the cure for diabetes?

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There is no real CURE for diabetes except perhaps a pancreas transplantation (or of pancreatic Langerhahn island beta cells) - still experimental. However diet - like exercise - does have a very important role in the treatment of this illness! In fact you can very well say that diet and exercise form the foundation of the treatment. So if you compare it with the building of a house they are the foundation. Medication forms the upper structure of the building. If the foundation is not sound it does not ...

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