Posted on 06/22/2019 9:43:14 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
A low-carb diet may have benefits for people at risk of developing type 2 diabetes even if they don't lose any weight, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that more than half of study participants no longer met the criteria for metabolic syndrome immediately following a four-week low-carb diet.
About a third of American adults have the syndrome, according to the American Heart Association.
After eating a low-carb diet, more than half the participants saw their metabolic syndrome reversed even though they were fed diets that intentionally contained enough calories to keep their weight stable.
After eating the low-carb diet, the participants had a variety of significantly improved health measures, particularly lower triglycerides and improved cholesterol readings. Despite the fact that the low-carb diet contained 2.5 times more saturated fat than the high-carb diet, it decreased saturated fat in the bloodstream and was associated with an increase in the size of cholesterol particles in the blood, which decreases the risk of cardiovascular disease, Hyde said.
The researchers also report evidence of increased fat-burning efficiency after a low-carb diet and an improvement in blood sugar. They did not see statistically significant improvements in blood pressure or insulin resistance.
Three participants no longer had metabolic syndrome after the moderate-carbohydrate diet and one no longer had the syndrome after the high-carb diet. Volek said that those results are likely explained by the fact that even these study diets—particularly the moderate-carb diet—represented a shift toward fewer carbs for study participants.
"Even a modest restriction is carbs is enough to reverse metabolic syndrome in some people, but others need to restrict even more," he said.
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DUH!
Diabetes results from too much sugar in the blood past the point of what insulin can push to the muscles to be used.
Having too much sugar in the blood turns it acidic and the acidic blood breaks down cellular walks, which is why diabetics have a harder time clotting from bleeding and are more open to infection.
Basically, you can either delay diabetes or even reverse it by reducing your carbohydrates if you’re no longer as physically active as you once we’re.
I read the study. The average low carb diet in the study was a 3000 calories per day diet with 45.5 g of carbs.
The amount of carbs varied from person to person because they wanted to keep their weight constant for the study. Some persons took more calories to do that and some less. So carbs were kept at 6% of total calorie intake. 6% of the average 3000 calorie value is how I got the numbers above.
Another study can do that. These things are more effective when they are focused.
My numbers improved and remain stable when I cut out the amount of meals I had every day. I was snacking constantly. Started doing just two meals a day no snacks between meals numbers came way down and were made steady. Every meal or snack introduces more insulin into the system. Exercising but an empty stomach really helped my triglycerides. I heard one guy say u will live as long as your pancreas will let you. Give it a rest.
Carbohydrates are broken down into sugars.
Too much sugar over stresses insulin, which over time can cause diabetes.
Eliminating carbs means eliminating sugar, which lets the insulin settle down, and lets the body heal from diabetes.
Yes...DUH!
I think that is expecting a lot in such a short period of time.
“Low-carb diet may reduce diabetes risk independent of weight loss”
IS THE SKY BLUE?
Look, pretty much every informed American now understands the going low-carb is healthy, and the lower the better (although going below 10 grams a day might be a bit too much).
Oh, yea, that is everyone EXCEPT the medical profession. They, pretty much, think you’re a nutcase if you tell them that you’re severely limiting carbs.
My wife has cancer (and is doing very well, thank you). I told her doctors we were eating very low carb, to deprive the cancer of glucose. Some of them objected, saying “But your brain runs on glucose.”
I was on the phone with one of them when she said that. I kind of lost it and said “Are you aware of the 1967 study by George Cahill, where he fasted volunteers for 40 days and determined the brain was running on 67% ketones?”. There was silence on the phone for several seconds, then she said “I have to get back to work.”
And there’s more. Your body makes about 80g of glucose per day, even in extended fasts or starvation.
We are doing hyperbaric oxygen therapy. It’s not FDA approved to treat cancer, so it’s out of pocket, but not unreasonable. About $100 per 90 minute session.
I made a video of it last week: (Shirley HBOT):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtC-QEbUq88
Thank you for the video. I had the same conversation with our oncologist and she didn’t want to hear it also. Glucose is not the problem she said. And she cut me right off.
A relative of mine has gone on a special diet, medically monitored & adjusted (but not distinctly “low carb”), for several months now. Wit that diet she has gone from diabetic to pre-diabetic, off her previous diabetic meds and her numbers continue to improve.
It is not cheap. The medical part includes extensive and repeated blood tests that are part of tailoring and adjusting her diet specifically for her. Yes, along with the program of what she can eat has been adherence to restrictions on things she cannot eat (or drink). Knowing her history I know many of the “must nots” are part of her improvement. She has lost some weight but her blood-sugar improvement has been the greatest change.
Fiber Advance and Fiber Well Fit will do the job if taken after every meal.
Ask her why they give glucose with radioactive tracer before a PET scan.
Because cancer eats glucose. DUH. Cancer has 18 times more insulin receptors than normal cells. Spike insulin with carbs and you are telling the cancer “get ready, food is coming, time to grow.”
One thing that those with diabetes can do is have entire days where they don’t take carbs at all.
Just meat and vegetables.
May? No significant sugar or carb intake, no source of blood sugar to spike. Easily (in many or most cases) controlled with pills instead of insulin.
Exactly.
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Not true at all. I recommend you read “The Starch Solution” by Dr John McDougall, The End of Diabetes” by Dr. Joel Fuhrman, and watch “ What the Health” on Nexflix.
The majority of your calories should come from whole food carbs. The healthiest diet is low-fat, low protein, high carb and high starch.
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