Generally I don’t like to be anecdotal but today I will. The testimonials in this LA Times piece are so compelling I’ll even overlook the Yoga references. These were obese folks with “bad” type 2 diabetes who used lifestyle changes to dispense with insulin and completely reverse their disease processes. It drives home the point that you treat insulin resistance with exercise and caloric reduction. These patients’ doctors were treating overeating with more and more insulin. Predictably, they got worse.

Of course these were exceptionally motivated people. For folks who can’t seem to diet and exercise we sometimes have to treat their overeating with insulin just to decrease microvascular disease, but it’s not physiologic.

Read the whole article but ignore the parts about Yoga.