They have recommended that all people with type I diabetes should get it, and many with type II diabetes.
They said further research is needed to see if the findings could apply to all patients with type I diabetes.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, the doctors said the findings had the potential to dramatically improve the lives of people with type I diabetes.
The theory that patients with type I diabetes can eat anything they wish as long as they adjust their insulin intake was first developed in Germany.
However, as many babies are big, and only a very few go on to develop type I diabetes, it is likely there is at least one other factor involved.
Type I diabetes is thought to be an "autoimmune" disease in which the body's own immune system - which is meant to fight foreign threats like bacteria - turns on the cells in a gland called the pancreas.
So far in his life, Christensen has lived with Type I diabetes, survived a massive heart attack, endured lymphoma (the same type of cancer that killed his father), and, 18 months ago, suffered a stroke that wiped out his speech.
The researchers, all 256 of them, looked at seven diseases: bipolar disorder, coronary-artery disease, Crohn's disease (an inflammation of the gut), hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis, type I diabetes (the sort that develops early in life) and type II diabetes (the sort that develops later).
Your type I or juvenile-onset diabetes is due to the islet cells located in your pancreas no longer producing insulin.
Had he said that folks who existed on a diet of white sugar and pasta on their way to their diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes should be denied health insurance, I could, at least, see where he was coming from.
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