Do Carbs Protect Against Diabetes in Finland?
Finnish scientists redraw the map
Several readers told me about the big headlines in Finland yesterday. A new PhD thesis was interpreted as proving that carbohydrates protect against type 2 diabetes. Therefore, low carb diets were said to increase the risk of diabetes.
As usual this is a case of a single observational study (i.e. statistical correlations from a survey) and headline-seeking journalists. But it’s more irresponsible than usual.
Observational studies never prove causality, they only give us theories that need to be tested. Moreover this is just one such study. If we look at all similar studies combined there is a clear correlation between carbohydrates (GI or GL) and diabetes, as well as several other diseases.
Furthermore, if we leave the uncertain science and look at more trustworthy studies (well-conducted intervention trials) it’s been shown that food with less carbohydrates both protect against developing diabetes and improve the health of diabetics.
Journalists have the proverbial memory of gold fish when it comes to studies on diet and health. They start from scratch with every new study, no matter how insignificant. They gladly redraw the map upside down, against all logic, when given the opportunity of a selling headline. But scientists should be more responsible than that.
On TV they always have the same persons with the same old messages of official health information with their same old warnings concerning Low Carb, it is like a wall, nothing affects their position.... they aren't even able to inform correctly about Atkins and his death!
Last weekend there was a special on TV about diets and they only mentioned Paleo and warned that you may not want to live without potatoes and rice. LOL, seems that I am not capable to decide myself!
Media in Germany do not even look aside the official propaganda, if you want and need more information, you are on your own :(
this looks like a good option:
Lindt 99% cacao:
http://www.lindt.com/ca/swf/eng/products/excellence/bars/excellence-9...
it has 4g carbs per 50g of choc. 3 grams fiber, 1g sugar.
can't find anything better than this that doesnt have sugar alcohols...
has anybody doing LCHF tried this?
http://chocoperfection.com/
I'm not sure that erythritol is anything to worry about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythritol
http://waroninsulin.com/nutrition/what-are-the-side-effects-of-aspart...
Dr. Eenfeldt and Dr. Attia need to coordinate!
http://www.chocolats-pralus.com/en/madagascar-100-bar.html
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fi&tl=en&js=n&...
And now with Internet peopel can read all sorts of sciense online!
*eyeroll*
It doesn't matter how many published studies I direct them to, in the end, they go with "the consensus." One actually said to me that he had to go with the consensus even if the consensus was wrong because "that's the way science works!!"
"Science proceeds one funeral at a time." - Max Planck
He claims in particular:
"Multiple studies dating as far back as the 1920s have shown the benefits of a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet in the treatment and cure of type-2 diabetes. This kind of eating is more descriptively referred to as a starch-based diet (potatoes, rice, corn, sweet potatoes, pasta, etc. with vegetables and fruits). . . Over time, switching to a low-fat, starch-based [vegan] diet and associated weight loss will cure essentially every patient with type-2 diabetes."
Really???
This isn't a reporter--this is a doctor who writes books and promotes this approach, claiming science is on his side.
Can both be right???
Its about the critical mass of knowledge in the population.. its growing!
There is some professors her that got out and warning about LCHF, and its real funny when just comon peopel can reject her points by pointing on better sciens!
One other thing.. some finnish doktor tells on the Swedish blogg, that this is not new studie.. its a reutilization of an old cancer study.. merely such as they give antixodants to smokers to see if that saves them from cancer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dn4jsz8A1k
i like the 90% better, i usually have 2 servings which is almost the whole bar, but it only adds up to 24g of carbs and 10 fiber. so a total of 14g of net Carbs is fine.
99%Lindt is good too, but takes some time to get used to it. 6/10
90%Lindt 8/10
Choco Perfection i liked, but i did not like the Price! 9/10
and QuestBars (protein Bars) are good, like a 7/10 and really low in carbs. so you could have more then one depending how much carbs you intake.