Reversing diabetes: myth or reality?

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Júlia Maria Guilherme Ribeiro Antunes

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Long gone are the days when men added knowledge and drew on maps, New Lands, in a time called DISCOVERIES, where the motivation to find new foods - spices, sugar cane, coffee - gave strength to install the company SLAVERY that, with blood, sweat and tears developed the production of sugar that has never stopped until today and as far as we can read in this fantasy mantle that has fed the world until our time, will never end!  The Ebers Papyrus from Ancient Egypt already mentioned diabetes, which has never disappeared and has instead become the biggest silent epidemic of our time, giving life to a multitude of diseases and their treatments that make the pharmaceutical industry happy with the billions it makes every year! In recent years, Quaternary Prevention has given hope to all those whoanother look at the problem of health/disease, invest in new lifestyles, accept the importance of lifestyles, accepting the importance of diet and physical exercise in daily metabolic control metabolic control, will be able to reverse this phantom disease / type II and III diabetes, which has come from the night of time and is now enormously widespread, even contributing to Alzheimer’s disease. Some say yes!

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Júlia Maria Guilherme Ribeiro Antunes, DDS, PhD Auxiliar Professor- Instituto Universitário Egas Moniz (IUEM) Colaborator Egas Moniz Center for Interdisciplinary Research

DDS, PhD

Auxiliar Professor- Instituto Universitário Egas Moniz (IUEM)

Colaborator Egas Moniz Center for Interdisciplinary Research

How to Cite

Reversing diabetes: myth or reality?. (2025). International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 1(1), 55-58. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2025.n1.v1.2803

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