Debate About Low-Carb Diet And Glucose Control Continues.

reports that in recent New York Times commentary, Dr. Sarah Hallberg, an osteopath at a weight loss clinic in Indiana, and Dr. Osama Hamdy, the medical director of the obesity weight loss program at the Joslin Diabetes Center at Harvard Medical School, argue that a diet that restricts carbohydrates helps with diabetes. However, the Times points out that there are “no large and rigorous studies showing that low carbohydrate diets offer an advantage,” nor is there a “consensus on the definition of a low-carbohydrate diet.” In support of a “low-carbohydrate” diet like the one proposed by Dr. Halberg, Kevin Hill of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and his colleagues have conducted a short term study “involving 17 overweight and obese men, none of whom had diabetes.” The study found “that insulin secretion dropped by 50 percent with the very low carbohydrate diet, meaning that much less insulin was required to maintain normal blood glucose levels.” Long-term studies however, have “failed to show that low carbohydrate diets benefited glucose control.” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/health/type-2-diabetes-low-carb-diet.html?_r=0