Much has been written about vegan diets for treating Type 2 diabetes.
According to a large study reported on in the American Diabetes Association's journal Diabetes Care in April 2014, vegan diets could also lower the risk of developing the condition.
The study, carried out at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, included16,154individuals in eight European countries.
Protein intake and new cases of Type 2 diabetes were recorded over a 12 year period.
It was found the individuals who took in the highest amount of total protein had a 5 percent higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes than did those taking in less protein, and participants eating the highest amount of animal protein had a 6 percent increased risk of developing the condition.
From this information the authors suggested by limiting high protein and especially high animal protein, vegan diets could help stem the world-wide Type 2 diabetes epidemic.
Ways of lowering the risk of diabetes are especially important to those with other risk factors.
Being...

• overweight or obese,
• having had Gestational diabetes,
• having had an overweight baby,
• advancing age, and
• a family history of Type 2 diabetes

all raise the risk of developing the disorder.
The American Dietetic Association and the American Diabetes Association take the position vegan diets are healthful with some simple planning.
Vitamin B12, or cyanocobalamin, is the only vitamin not available from plant sources.
Vegans take in vitamin B12 from...

• supplements,
• fortified cereals,
• fortified soy products, or
• nutritive yeast.
  

Iron is needed for making red blood cells, and can be found in green leafy vegetables - Popeye knew a thing or two about nutrition, legumes, and tofu...

• eating citrus fruits helps the body to absorb iron because of the acidity of the vitamin C.
  
• omega-3 fatty acids are made by plants and can be found in abundance in flaxseed, soybeans, soybean oil, canola oil, and wheat germ.
  
• good sources of calcium include green leafy vegetables such as turnip greens, collards, kale, and mustard greens, as well as broccoli, Brussels sprouts, fortified orange juice, fortified tofu, fortified rice and soy milk,and fortifiedcereals.
  
• vitamin D is produced by human skin when it is exposed to sunlight.
  Mushrooms, fortified orange juice, and fortified cereals are good sources of vitamin D.
  

So have a spinach and kale salad with tangerine sections and tofu cubes.
Sprinkle on some flax seeds.
Dress it with soybean oil and balsamic vinegar and eat outside in the fresh air.