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I love meat... But I'm not sure I could go 100% meat, I mean cheese is pretty good too.

Forgot a >. Here's the link I meant to include:
Ketogenic Diet. It's actually the fat that helps. Carnivore is also a high fat diet, even though it's only meat.

Well, OK, calcium anyway.

If you do the high-protein, near-zero-carb weight loss routine without massively increasing your calcium intake, your bones get brittle... thus, the snapping of the bones in my feet when I jumped over a small wall... (yeah, actual voice of experience talking here - someone who has never done the experiment will now post to tell me I'm wrong because their Dunning-Kruger and college degree says it isn't so; THIS IS THE INTERNET!)

Drink at least a pint of milk a day - I have a pint at lunch - and as long as you're not lactose intolerant or allergic, all will be well. And you can help your neighbors and fight the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria, if that matters to you, by buying organic milk locally.

Source: Over 15 years systematic experimentation with high-protein, low carb diets, including weight loss, weight maintenance and athletic performance dieting. Failures: several broken bones and clinically confirmed bone mass reduction. Successes: Over 30 lb weight loss maintained for ten years and bone degradation reversed through consumption of dairy products.

Some are, some aren't. I was keto for the better part of 5 years so I'm well aware of such things. However, the primary drivers for a ketogenic diet are: high-fat, low-carbs, and moderate to low protein. Nowhere on that list you'll notice is "skip vegetables". Non and low carb vegetables: all salad-type greens, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, etc... Here's a couple of lists for you friend:
https://www.dietdoctor.com/low...
https://www.healthline.com/nut...

You write "RIght now the only thing that works, is a very strict diet (calorie and carb controlled) and a very rigorous physical training for a long-long years time, to reprogram the insulin receptors." Fortunately, that is not completely true.

I could write an entire thesis here about why this is so, but others already have done so extensively. Just google for "Reverse type 2 diabetes" or LCHF and look out for a website called dietdoctor dot com. Enjoy opening a pandora's box of information.

You might not believe this low carb - high fat (LCHF) moderate protein diet for reversing type 2 diabetes, but what's the harm in trying? In the Netherlands, we are already a few steps further, one of the largest healthcare insurance providers is now providing full coverage for LCHFas an effective and cheap treatment for type 2 diabetes. That has to tell you something.

It's a little-known fact that the current dietary guidelines, primarily based on very weak 50-year-old scientific evidence, are actually driving the non-communicable diseases such as type 2 diabetes and fueling the obesity epidemic. This is why you need to go to places like dietdoctor to find your information and you cannot rely on information from webmd or the mayo clinic. The authors Nina Teicholz and Gary Taubes have written great books about this. Again, enjoy opening a pandora's book.

"The low-fat diet and food pyramid is probably the worst thing ever foisted on the American people. With 30 years of run-away obesity and diabetes, maybe it's time to admit failure with those recommendations."

As a foreigner I can easily see where USA's obesity epidemy comes from and it is not from any given food pyramid: have you paid attention lately to the ridiculously big rations you ingest? The ridiculously high levels of processed food? The ridiculously high comsumption of snacks and soda drinks?

No, it really doesn't matter how much you consume on a low carb, high fat diet as long as you remain in nutritional ketosis.

Here, one guy used himself as a guinea pig:
5,800 kcal/day low carb high fat diet, then he repeated the experiment with a 5,000 kcal/day diet with high carb intake.

These results make sense because the biochemical pathway signals are overloaded: the same hormones/substrates are used to signal more than one condition. That is to say, while your body is burning fat in nutritional ketosis it disables the pathways for laying down new fat stores. Essentially, a high fat/low carb diet tricks the body into thinking it is starving when it is not (the overloaded signals can't distinguish between the diet and true starvation), and it obviously makes no sense to store more fat if you're starving/burning fat. So, the body doesn't do it.

But, yeah, all the soft drinks and shit are killing people. No argument from me there. Drop the carbs.

I liked the Diet Doctor website. The page about Dreamfields Pasta was very interesting—the fact that he tested his blood sugar during the test added a good bit of objectivity to something normally subjective. He also included results from a medical journal which matched his experiment. The graph showing his blood sugar over time after eating different foods is pretty convincing.

http://www.dietdoctor.com/lchf and http://authoritynutrition.com/... are both very good.