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Old Sat, Sep-15-18, 02:58
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Default Low carb diet ‘should be first line of approach to tackle type 2 diabetes’

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14 September, 2018

Low carb diet ‘should be first line of approach to tackle type 2 diabetes’ and prolong lifespan

A low carbohydrate diet should be the first line approach to manage patients with type 2 diabetes and 'most likely' prolong lifespan


A low carbohydrate diet should be the first line approach to manage patients with type 2 diabetes and most likely prolong lifespan, according to a group of experts.

A large-scale review of randomised controlled trials of a moderate low carbohydrate diet, where up to 40 per cent of calories come from carbohydrates, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, reveals how it is significant superiority over a low fat diet, where up to 30 per cent of calories come from fat, in the short term for glucose control and cardiovascular risk factors type 2 diabetics. The results show the former diet also has a marginal long term benefit in the same areas.

Study co-author Professor Hanno Pijl, from Leiden University in the Netherlands, said: “There is no plausible explanation for recent media reports that average carb consumption prolongs healthspan in all of us. Indeed, minimally processed, low carb (starch and sugar restricted) food should be the first line dietary approach in the management of type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome.”

Last month, a study published in the Lancet Public Health journal found consuming a diet that is either very high or very low in carbohydrates is associated with a shorter life expectancy. Eating carbohydrates in moderation seems to be optimal for health and living a long life, the research found. A “sweet spot” found somewhere in the middle at 50 per cent of calories.

The findings from this latest study will therefore add further fuel to carboyhdrate/fat diet debate which has split the scientific and public health community.

Responsibility

Dr Aseem Malhotra, a London-based cardiologist and anti-obesity campaigner, said in a discussion of the findings with the authors and other health experts in the British Journal of Sports Medicine podcast that doctors have “a duty and responsibility to our patients and scientific integrity”.

He said: “This means we must give advice based on what the up to date totality of evidence says. In my view there is no doubt that the misguided low fat food movement that has driven up consumption of sugar and starchy carbohydrate in the population is at the root of the type 2 diabetes epidemic.

“This is a condition which has an average reduction in life expectancy of 5 – 10 years. It is now clear that a low carbohydrate approach is the most effective way to manage type 2 diabetes, not only in terms of glucose control and improving cardiovascular risk factors but for many reverses the condition entirely. It’s most likely that a real food, healthy low carbohydrate diet will lengthen lifespan, not shorten it. “

More people than ever have diabetes and more people than ever are at risk of Type 2 diabetes, rates of which have risen sharply in recent years alongside the obesity epidemic. If nothing changes, more than five million people will have diabetes in the UK by 2025 – 90 per cent of whom will be type 2.

Arjun Panesar, chief executive of diabetes.co.uk, said: “We have been astounded by the global impact that the Low Carb Program is having on redefining the understanding of type 2 diabetes, it’s metabolic underpinning and the opportunity to put it into remission. Not only is this opportunity achievable, it is sustainable and scalable.

“To date, 350,000 people have joined the Low Carb Program, with published 1-year outcomes demonstrating an average weight loss of 7.4kg, that 40 per cent of people who start on a medication no longer require it and 1 in 4 people who complete the program in remission at 1 year.


https://inews.co.uk/news/health/low...betes-lifespan/
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Old Sat, Sep-15-18, 12:16
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A similar review study with similar title was published January 2015 by 25 well known experts in diabetes management. How many times does it need to be studied?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/scien...899900714003323

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Dietary carbohydrate restriction as the first approach in diabetes management: Critical review and evidence base


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Not according to the American Diabetes Association. "We know it works, but it's impossible to stick to."

Well, I've done it for 10 years? Dr. just told me this week after looking at my lab report, "you're not a diabetic" I should have responded "and I never will be."
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"We know it works, but it's impossible to stick to."
yeah, it is so MUCH easier to stick to a low-fat diet of rabbit food... NOT!
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It would also hit drug company profits!
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Not according to the American Diabetes Association. "We know it works, but it's impossible to stick to."

Well, I've done it for 10 years? Dr. just told me this week after looking at my lab report, "you're not a diabetic" I should have responded "and I never will be."



Your success is reassuring--- too many seem to think it is impossible to stick to, others dont want to even try a new way. Yes, change is hard. Being sick is harder!!!

When I read DANDR cover to cover ( with disdain for another diet) his was the first diet that said it wasnt my fault. That he was not afraid of any question, as he had the answer. AND I believed the science he presented: Diabetes and its many associated ills were looming on the horizon. Thru him I knew I was prediabetic before the doctors even thought of such a theory. lol ( THank you Dr A !)

Even I could make this way of eating work, admittedly, with many hiccups over the years. My success is two fold: having a low carb family for support, and a never-quit attitude.
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The conclusions of the AJCN study referenced by the OP are not that rousing:

Conclusions
Currently available data provide low- to moderate-certainty evidence that dietary carbohydrate restriction to a maximum of 40% yields slightly better metabolic control of uncertain clinical importance than reduction in fat to a maximum of 30% in people with T2D. This systematic review is registered at http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/...=CRD42017052467 as CRD42017052467.
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Not according to the American Diabetes Association. "We know it works, but it's impossible to stick to."

Well, I've done it for 10 years? Dr. just told me this week after looking at my lab report, "you're not a diabetic" I should have responded "and I never will be."
That is awesome!



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