Reduced carbohydrate improves type 2 diabetics' ability to regulate blood sugar
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas...90810094055.htm |
This astounds me that they had to do new research to make this momentous discovery.
Do they even know anything at all about the history of diabetes treatment? That until the development of injectible insulin, the ONLY way to treat it was by reducing dietary carbohydrates? Sounds like they're completely ignoring that detail, and the fact that when it was the only way to treat it, that's what was done. Besides, even if they now acknowledge that losing weight isn't absolutely necesary, if all the patient does is to cut carbs while increasing protein and fats, chances are still pretty good they'll lose some weight along the way. Of course that depends on just how much they're cutting carbs in their "reduced carbohydrate" diet though. If it's cut from hundreds of carbs/day to "only 120 carbs/day", that's not going to help all that much. Cut way down, most likely to less than 50/day, they'll see some real progress. |
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Yeah... except that high quality controlled EXPERIMENTS (such as this cross-over experiment) are vital if we're ever going to settle the diet wars. Unfortunately, the low-carb nay-sayers out there will pooh-pooh this study because it was sponsored by Arla Food For Health which is associated with the dairy industry. (Arla's web site says "Arla Food for Health sponsors science-based research on identification, isolation and characterization of health associated milk components, including validation, quality and up-scaling of such as well as the mechanisms behind the health benefits of dairy products and ingredients in-vitro, in-vivo and in clinical studies." After all, you can't believe anything those people who want to keep raising COWS and using their products - instead of becoming good little vegans - have to say! :rolleyes: By the way, DKK 4 million is about $600,000 in U.S. dollars. If the researchers spent the entire grant on this one experiment, that works out to spending about $1800 per subject per week to put those 28 subjects on the two cross-over diets, monitor them for 12 weeks, and write up the results. Ya gotta wonder where all the money went. |
Here in the US, along time friend was recentlty diagnosed withT2D and her diet change included limiting carbs to 45 per day. Unfortunately "they" didnt teach her how to evaluate all food for carb counts. When we talked she was still eating far more than the 45, but far less than she used to. BG still out of control, but with a little education she could beat this.
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https://link.springer.com/article/1...0125-019-4956-4 So... a 2000 calorie diet would have given 150 grams of carbohydrate. Pretty much Zone ratios, more than Atkins. Except that when I followed the Zone to the book it put me under 1500 calories a day, pretty severe calorie restriction if you consider that I lose weight at 2000 calories a day on my current keto diet (which is one reason that I make sure to eat well above that). A moderate intervention, giving moderate benefits. Only a six week intervention--would they continue to improve, or are the improvements all tapped out? Since the article on science daily wasn't specific about just how low carbs should be cut, maybe people will misread this and go all the way to Atkins. One could hope. |
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