Types of Diets                                                          

Author's Perspective on Diets: I didn't really look forward to going on a diet. But, at that time, I was desperate to improve my health and hopefully save my eyes, kidneys and legs.  So my endocrinologist sent me to a dietitian after I got out of the hospital. While I was waiting for the dietitian in her office, a rather large hefty woman (I'd say about 350 pounds) waddled over and told me she was the dietitian! When I asked her what kind of diet she was going to put me on, she said "The same 1200-calorie diet that I'm on." I almost broke my knee trying to get out of her office.

FYI: In my experience, dietitians tend to be more calorie-focused and don't really understand the science of nutrition. True nutritionists tend to be more science-based and have some understanding of disease pathology. But, neither really understand the science of diabetes. And, unfortunately, most diabetes educators are even worse! They tend to really push the drugs big time! Plus, they get frustrated when you ask them questions that they can't answer -- much like some of the doctors.

Thanks to my daughter, who bought  me several books on diabetes, I quickly realized that it was up to me to do the research and figure out how to get my diabetes under control.

Types of Diets

The following is a list of the many types of diets that the author  reviewed and evaluated before developing his Super Meal Model Diet to help Type 2 diabetics reverse their diabetes, and help Type 1 diabetics control their diabetes with less insulin. The author also analyzed the issues associated with why diets don't work and ensured that his nutritional program addressed those issues.

21-Day diet
Acid-Alkaline diets
Asian diet
Atkins diet
Blood Type diet
Buddhist diet
Cabbage Soup diet
Crash diet
Detox diet
Diabetic diet
DASH diet
Earth diet
Elimination diet
Fit for Life diet
Food combining diet
Fruitarian diet
Fad diet
Gluten-free diet
Grapefruit diet
Green smoothie diet
Hallelujah diet
High-protein diet
Jenny Craig diet
Juice diet
Juice fast diet
Kosher diet
Liquid diet
Low-carbohydrate diet
Low-fat diet
Low glycemic index diet
Low-protein diet
Low sodium diet
Lutein-free diet
Lemonade diet
Macrobiotic diet
Master Cleanse
Mediterranean diet
Natural Foods Diet
Negative calorie diet
Nutrisystems Diet
Okinawa diet
Omnivore
Organic food diet
Ornish Diet
Ovo-lacto vegetarian diet
Paleolithic diet
Perricone diet
Pescetarian diet
Plant-based diet
Pritikin Diet
Pyramid diet
Rastafarian diet
Raw food diet
Scarsdale diet
Schwarzbein Principle diet
Shangri-La diet
Slimming World diet
Smart For Life
Sonoma diet
South Beach diet
Subway diet
Sugar Busters! diet
Vegan diet
Vegetarian diet
Very low calorie diet
Volumetrics diet
Weight Down diet
Weight Watchers diet
Western pattern diet
Whole food diet
Zone diet

Notes:
The majority of these diets contained at least one or two major flaws that prevented them from being beneficial to diabetics.

The author used attributes from some of the diets in bold text to design his "Super Meal Model Diet. In addition, he also purposely ignored some of the key attributes from those diets because they actually did more harm than good.

Please Note! In some cases, diabetics thought that "the diet" was "the solution" to their diabetes, i.e. the Raw Food Diet. No!!!! The diet (or the proper nutritional profile) is only part of the solution! Unfortunately, the over-marketing of some of these diets give the false impression that they have the complete solution to reversing your diabetes!  But, they don't!