Current treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes is a complete disaster. Perhaps because it's so influenced by financial interests and old dietary dogma.
Here's a good article about just how badly we're failing people with type 2 diabetes:
Robb Wolf: Why Won't We Tell Diabetics the Truth?Any successful treatment should include recommending real food without sugar and carbs to naturally lower blood sugar.
Putting sugar-rich desserts and cakes on the cover of "Diabetic Living" magazines (top image) is beyond bad, it should be as unthinkable as recommending smoking on the cover of a lung disease magazine.