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Low-carb diet improves sugar control in diabetics
Low-carb diet improves sugar control in diabetics -- Posted by Gumbo on 10-24-04 12:38
Low-carb diet improves sugar control in diabetics
Sep 24 (Reuters Health) - Following a high-protein, low- carbohydrate diet
for five weeks led to a marked reduction in blood sugar levels in patients
with untreated type 2 diabetes, according to the results of a small study
published in the September issue of Diabetes.
This could potentially be a way for diabetes type 2 patients to control
their blood sugar, or "glucose," without drugs, co-authors Dr. Mary C.
Gannon and Dr. Frank Q. Nuttall, from the University of Minnesota in
Minneapolis, note. However, further studies are needed to evaluate the
long-term effects of such a diet, they add.
The findings stem from a study of eight men with type 2 diabetes. For five
weeks, the subjects consumed a diet with a carbohydrate to protein to fat
ratio of either 20:30:50 (test diet) or 55:15:30 (comparison diet). After a
five-week break, the subjects then switched to the other diet for five
weeks.
At follow-up, the average 24-hour glucose level and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c)
percentages were lower after the test diet than after the control diet.
HbA1c levels, a marker for long-term increases in blood sugar, were still
falling at the end of the test-diet phase.
Another change associated with the test diet included decreased insulin
levels. However, no changes in cholesterol levels were observed.
Overall, the study findings suggest that this high- protein,
low-carbohydrate diet can "dramatically reduce" 24-hour glucose
concentrations people with type 2 diabetes, the investigators conclude.
SOURCE: Diabetes, September 2004.
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