Curing a persistent disease, lifestyle changes are crucial In the current treatment manual of the Japanese Diabetes Association, it is written that diabetes is incurable and once you have it, you will need continuous treatment for the rest of your life. This is also the common view of Chinese doctors. General medical institutions follow that instruction, and patients are influenced by their physicians to believe that there is no cure and lose confidence in the cure. Initially there is some improvement with effort, but the reality is that it is difficult to persist for long periods of time, and people generally grow discouraged and even desperate. In fact, the physician should state it correctly this way:- “Diabetes cannot be cured under the present lifestyle, but it can be cured if one intensifies exercise, eats properly, and maintains a proper lifestyle.” In reality, however, physicians are no longer serious about properly and positively encouraging patients, and patients themselves lack proper knowledge, and both doctors and patients increasingly believe that diabetes cannot be cured. It is the lack of knowledge about diabetes that perpetuates the poor lifestyles that currently exist and thus makes diabetes incurable that is the root of the problem. The most important thing to know about diabetes is to get the right information. The genetic factor of diabetes is rare, and the reason why it is mistakenly thought to be genetic is that parents pass on their lifestyle, especially their wrong eating habits, to their children, which Japanese nutritionists call “food transmission”. Most diabetes is caused by one’s own lifestyle, which can also be called a “self-inflicted disease”. Diabetes is not difficult to treat if you recognize the disease and choose the right countermeasures in the early stage of its onset. Therefore, in order to treat the disease, it is necessary to understand the mechanism of its onset and cure, and to establish a strong belief in overcoming the disease. Among various habits, eating habits are difficult to be changed by external forces, and if one cannot muster the courage and is entangled in long years of wrong eating habits, diabetes becomes difficult to cure. The modern type of nutritional disorders are too many calories, lack of micronutrients, eating white rice, white bread, white sugar and other fine processed foods and severely “shrunken” vegetables. The prevention and treatment of diabetes should be a low-calorie diet, proper intake of antioxidants and trace elements, more exercise, and a good state of mind, where oats and brown rice can play a unique role as part of the staple diet. Dr. Chuan Zhang believes that in order to cure diabetes, it is necessary to change the wrong lifestyle, and the change of lifestyle mainly depends on oneself, but also needs the general and profound awareness of the country and society. Zhang Chuan, Department of Endocrinology, Second Hospital of Jilin University