Has anyone seen yesterday's YAHOO!News Top Stories piece:
"LOW FAT DIET REVERSES DIABETES, AT LEAST IN MICE"
by Maggie Fox, Health & Science Correspondent

Wash. (Reuters)- Fat, not sugar, is the key to controlling diabetes,
U.S. researchers said Thursday.
They said mice fed a simple low-fat diet were cured of their diabetes,
and say the same should be true of people.
"If you cut out fat and cut it down to a very low level--in our case it
was 10% of calories consumed--you will reverse diabetes," said
Richard Surwit, a psychiatry professor at Duke Univ. who led the
study.
He said problems controlling blood sugar levels are a side-effect, and
not a cause, of diabetes.
Surwit's team tested mice that had been bred to develop type-2
diabetes--the type that affects more than 14 million Americans and
millions more around the world.
Cutting their fat intake to 10 percent of calories from 40 percent
reversed their diabetes, Surwit reported in the journal Metabolism.
He said people are wasting their time when they try to eat a low-sugar
diet to control or prevent diabetes. "Sugar is not a problem. It really
isn't," he said. "That should not be something that people concern
themselves with. It should be fat and total calories."
Type-2 diabetes occurs when the body becomes resistant to the
effects of the hormone insulin. Insulin is important for metabolizing
both sugar and fat. Because people's blood sugar levels are so
strongly affected by this, doctors and patients have focused on sugar
as both a cause and effect of diabetes. But Surwit says this is wrong.
"A high-fat diet keeps the insulin elevated imappropriately,"he said.
Most Americans,and indeed most Westerners, eat a high-fat diet,
typically getting more than 30% of calories from fat. Most Americans--
55%--are also overweight, and obesity and diabetes are very strongly
linked.
Surwit says it will be nearly impossible to get most people to eat a 10%
fat diet. "Low-fat food doesn't taste good. It's that simple." he said.
He hopes new fat substitutes such as Procter & Gamble's Olestra and
a U.S. Dept. of Agri. product known as Nu-Trim, which is made from
oats, will be proved safe and useful.
Surwit says he has tested his ideas in people, as well. He says obese
women put on high-sugar and sugar-free diets that were identical in
other ways both lost the same amount of weight, and their blood
sugar and fat levels were the same.
He says his ideas have no bearing on type-1 diabetes--also known as
insulin-dependent diabetes. This disease accounts for only 5 % of all
cases of diabetes and is caused by damage to the cells in the pancreas
that secrete insulin.

What do you all think of this??? I thought it a little vague and it
certainly was a shock--considering all that I've learned from this list
and others. I'd be interested in folks' thoughts. Sorry for the mile-long
post.
Regards,
Eti