The best lifestyle plan would be to devise practical lifestyle regimens.
Lifestyle can reverse diabetes in some diabetics, and substantially improve glucose control in most others. This experience has been replicated by other physicians besides Pritikin and includes Drs. John McDougall and Joel Fuhrman – who have established similar lifestyle clinics.

The best lifestyle plan would be to devise practical lifestyle regimens that could literally reverse diabetes in the large majority of compliant patients. These plans could also be applied to an "at risk" group of people to prevent diabetes. If successful, then we have a reasonable lifestyle strategy that could be construed as promoting health development.

Such programs would evidently need to address very aggressively the chronic fat poisoning that induces and sustains type 2 diabetes. That would entail getting fat out of the diet, out of the bloodstream, and out of skeletal muscle, while shrinking bloated, insulin-resistant cells. Achieving a substantial, progressive loss of excess body fat would evidently be a crucial key to success. Restoration of normal pancreas function might require additional measures such as low-glycemic index meals, intermittent fasting, and/or supplemental nutrients which promote glucose control.

Introducing McCarty's Ketogenic Lifestyle:
This is an integrated strategy of exercise training, dietary choices, and supplementation that can help diabetics and non-diabetics alike get much leaner and correct their chronic overexposure to fat and glucose. This approach attempts to harness the liver's substantial capacity for fat burning. This strategy is completely consistent with the diet/exercise principles espoused by Pritkin. Essentially, this program consists of regular aerobic exercise, of moderate intensity and increasingly prolonged duration (which will be feasible as muscle tone and cardiovascular fitness improve), and preferably in the morning (though afternoon exercise is acceptable), performed on an empty stomach in conjunction with special supplementation.

It is becoming abundantly clear that our current health crisis is a lifestyle crisis that can be best addressed by focusing on lifestyle changes that would contribute to rather than detract from human health. Among these healthy lifestyle changes are reducing the fat and carbohydrate aspects of our diets, increasing the amounts of reasonably easy exercise (walking is preferred), appropriate nutritional supplementation and having a healthy, functional nervous system.

Vitamin C
The April, 2004 issue of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition noted that a team of researchers including Lester Packer PhD of UCLA found that vitamin C supplements can lower C-reactive protein (CRP) levels in the blood. C-reactive protein is a marker of inflammation and chronic disease risk in humans. , smokers and obese and overweight individuals.