foodconsumer.org - Plant-based diet effective in treating diabetes ...

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine released a statement on its website saying it filed a lawsuit against Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Margaret Hamburg, M.D., for failing to act on a PCRM administrative petition that requests the agency to tell diabetes patients that plant-based diet is as effective as oral diabetes drugs. The PCRM early filed a petition to request the government agency to alert diabetes patients to safe and effective alternatives for diabetes treatment after reports emerged to suggest that diabetes drug avandia increases risk of stroke, heart failure and death. At the annual meeting of the American Association of Diabetes Educators this month, Dr.  Barnard was said to present his research on how a vegan diet can prevent and reverse diabetes and some other researchers will also present their reports on how a vegan diet can be used to prevent the disease that affects 20 million Americans.