Your Good Health: Plant-based diet good for diabetes

Dear Dr. Roach: Your recent column about treating diabetes left me wondering. Diabetes, as I understand it, is usually a result of too much sugar being consumed. But consuming carbohydrates is not that much different because they are quickly converted to sugar through the human chemical processes. So, why are you promoting a plant-based diet that is high in carbohydrates?

I am careful about what I mean by a plant-based diet. While it’s true that a diet consisting entirely of maple syrup and orange juice would be extremely bad for a person with diabetes because of the concerns about blood sugar that you raised, a plant-based diet that is mostly vegetables, whole grains, legumes, fatty fish and nuts/seeds with moderate amounts of whole fruits does not raise blood sugar more than a standard Western diet.

Dear Dr. Roach: The supplemental facts on the One A Day Men’s 50+ and Women’s 50+ vitamins are similar — only the men’s had vitamin K, and the women’s didn’t. Other than this, the sole differences were variations in some of the daily values.I don’t recommend daily multivitamins for healthy people, besides a few exceptions:

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