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Health Tips => Health Tips => Diabetics => Topic started by: maruppharm on August 29, 2012, 03:28:05 PM
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According to recent findings, an intermittent low carbohydrate diet was better for diabetics than having a standard, daily low calorie diet. It was found that the latter was better in attaining weight loss goals to keep blood sugar levels manageable.
The research was conducted at the Genesis Prevention Center at University Hospital located at Manchester, England. The study yielded that restricting carbohydrates to just two days per week would prove to be more healthy and even help in preventing breast cancer and development of other diseases.
According to Michelle Harvie Ph.D., SRD, a research dietician at the Center, presented the findings of the study at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium last week. What the researchers did was compare three diets for four months on the effects on weight loss and blood markers for the risk of breast cancer in the women who participated in the study. There were 115 women participants and all had a family history of breast cancer.
The researchers randomly assigned patients to one of the diets in the study, namely calorie-restricted, low carbohydrate diet two days a week and a diet where unlimited protein and healthy fats for two days a week and a standard Mediterranean diet that is calorie restricted seven days a week.
Data from the study yielded that the intermittent low carbohydrate diet were far better than the daily Mediterranean diet in the reduction of weight, body fat and resistance to insulin. The average weight loss and body fat was about four kilograms or nine pounds for the low carbohydrate diet while the Mediterranean diet lost about 2.4 kilograms or just five pounds.
As for insulin resistance, the risk lowered by 22 percent with the restricted low carb diet while the ad lib diet had a lowered risk of 14 percent while the Mediterranean diet lowered the risk only by four percent.
Harvie added, “It is interesting that the diet that only restricts carbohydrates but allows protein and fats is as effective as the calorie-restricted, low carbohydrate diet.†She further said that more studies need to be done in order to validate this comparative study on diets to make them feasible for the diabetic in the long run.