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What Diet Is Best for Diabetes?

Doctors have been debating for decades about which diet is best for diabetes control.

Doctors have been debating the best diet for diabetes for years.

In an effort to settle the argument, Australian scientists recruited more than 100 overweight adults with type 2 diabetes to participate in a dietary trial. The volunteers were randomized to consume a low-carb diet that was also low in calories or a high-carb diet matched in calories and focusing on unrefined grains. Both diets were low in saturated fat.

After six months, both groups had lost weight and improved their blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol. The low-carb diet offered greater benefits in allowing people to reduce their diabetes medication and may be the best choice.

[Diabetes Care, Nov., 2014]

If you would like to learn more about a low-carb approach to healthy eating, you may want to listen to our interview with Dr. Eric Westman on Show 958: Flipping the Food Pyramid Upside Down.

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Joe Graedon is a pharmacologist who has dedicated his career to making drug information understandable to consumers. His best-selling book, The People’s Pharmacy, was published in 1976 and led to a syndicated newspaper column, syndicated public radio show and web site. In 2006, Long Island University awarded him an honorary doctorate as “one of the country's leading drug experts for the consumer.”.
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