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EventsA high-fat diet helps diabetics
August 2 2014 by Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD![Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD]()
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A high-fat diet is good for diabetics. The Swedish study that recently showed that a moderate low-carbohydrate diet provides moderate benefits for diabetics has now been further analyzed.
We now also find signs of reduced inflammation in diabetics, who were given advice on a high-fat diet with fewer carbohydrates:
The study:
If I was looking to lose more weight, I would definitely pick a LCD based on that common practice and that the LCD always causes the same or more weight loss than the LFD.
I wonder though what the adherence was in the two groups to the caloric limit over the two years of the study, because – as we all know here – it is much easier to follow a 1800 kcal diet when satiating fats and proteins add up to 80 % compared to the low fat regimen with max. 30 % fat. From the results you mention it seems that people randomized to the low fat diet did a pretty good job to follow directions given for caloric limitation. It must have been much easier for the low(ish) carb group, especially if they were smart enough and upped their protein intake to around 30 %...