Re: Study: low carb diet improves glucose control

[Guest guest]

Well, now...isn't that nice. Give it a new cute name and maybe it'll

sell, smile.

Looks like the rest of the world is finally catching up to us.

Vicki, who's been eating this way for nigh onto 7 years now...

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Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 12:10 PM

Subject: Study: low carb diet improves glucose control

> NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Sept 23 -

>

> Intake of a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet for 5 weeks

> was associated with a marked reduction in blood glucose levels in

> patients with untreated type 2 diabetes, according to a small study

> published in the September issue of Diabetes.

>

> " Potentially, this could be a patient-empowering way to ameliorate

> hyperglycemia without pharmacological intervention, " co-authors

> Dr. C. Gannon and Dr. 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 crossover study of eight men with type 2

> diabetes. For 5 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 (control diet).

>

> After a 5-week washout period, the subjects then consumed the opposite

> diet for 5 weeks. The test diet, designed to be weight maintaining

and

> nonketogenic, was referred to as the (LoBag)

> low-biologically-available-glucose diet.

>

> The average 24-hour glucose levels at the end of the LoBAG and control

> diet phases were 126 and 198 mg/dL, respectively.

> The corresponding HbA1c percentages were 7.6 and 9.8. The HbA1c

> percentage was still falling at the end of the LoBAG diet phase.

Based

> on this, the researchers estimate that the final HbA1c percentage was

> between 6.4 and 5.4.

>

> Other changes associated with the LoBAG diet included decreased

insulin

> levels and increased glucagon levels. By contrast, no change in the

> cholesterol level was observed.

>

> " A LoBAG diet can dramatically

> reduce the 24-hour integrated glucose concentration and

> consequently the percentage of glycohemoglobin in people

> with type 2 diabetes, " the investigators conclude.

>

> Diabetes 2004;53:2375-2382.

>

[Guest guest]

Hey Vicki do you think the ADA will become believers from this

study????? LOLOL

cappie

Greater Boston Area

T-2 10/02 6/04 A1c: 4.3

Mod 100 carb diet, walking, Metformin.

ALA/EPO, Coq10, B12, C, Cal/mag

ALC, Biotin, full spectrum E

fish oil, garlic, flax seed, multi vitamin

Lovastatin 20 mg, Enalapril 10 mg

8/04: 25 to go/135 lbs gone / 5' / 66 yrs

cappie@...

[Guest guest]

I'm not holding my breath, smile.

V.

Re: Study: low carb diet improves glucose

control

> Hey Vicki do you think the ADA will become believers from this

> study????? LOLOL

>

>

> cappie

> Greater Boston Area

> T-2 10/02 6/04 A1c: 4.3

> Mod 100 carb diet, walking, Metformin.

> ALA/EPO, Coq10, B12, C, Cal/mag

> ALC, Biotin, full spectrum E

> fish oil, garlic, flax seed, multi vitamin

> Lovastatin 20 mg, Enalapril 10 mg

> 8/04: 25 to go/135 lbs gone / 5' / 66 yrs

> cappie@...

>

>

[Guest guest]

I'm so pleased they're finally STUDYING in a few people an approach

that health professionals have been EMPLOYING in many tens of

thousands for more than 20 years. At least it gets some press through

Reuters.

Duncan Crow

>

>

> NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Sept 23 -

>

> Intake of a high-protein,       low-carbohydrate diet for 5 weeks was

> associated with a marked reduction in blood glucose levels in patients

> with untreated type 2 diabetes, according to a small study published

> in the September issue of Diabetes.        

[Guest guest]

Vicki wrote

> Well, now...isn't that nice. Give it a new cute name and maybe it'll

> sell, smile.

> Looks like the rest of the world is finally catching up to us.

> Vicki, who's been eating this way for nigh onto 7 years now...>

Vicki does this mean your diet is 20:30:50 (carbohydrate:protein:fat) as in

the study?

By weight or by calories?

At first glance it just seems too high on fat.

Bea