Cutting back on carbs—like bread, pasta, and sugar—can fix type 2 diabetes, help you lose weight, lower blood pressure, and clean up a fatty liver, even if you don’t change how many antioxidants you eat.
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This study gave two groups of diabetics the same amount of calories and weight loss, but one group ate fewer carbs — and that group saw better blood sugar and liver fat results, proving that cutting carbs helps even without losing extra weight.
Reversing Type 2 Diabetes: A Narrative Review of the Evidence
This study looked at lots of research and found that eating fewer carbs can help reverse type 2 diabetes — which matches what the claim says. It doesn’t talk about antioxidants, but that’s okay because the claim says carbs are the key, not antioxidants.
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