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EventsNew study: Low carb (again) beats calorie restriction for reversing type 2 diabetes
August 25 2017 by Amanda Åkesson, BSc![Amanda Åkesson, BSc]()
, medical review by Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD![Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD]()
in Diabetes, Diabetes studies
, medical review by Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD
in Diabetes, Diabetes studies 
Even a not-so-strict low-carb diet beats calorie restriction when it comes to reversing diabetes type 2. That is what a new Japanese study finds:
Our study demonstrated that a 6-month 130 g/day low-carbohydrate diet reduced HbA1c and BMI in poorly controlled Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. A low-carbohydrate diet is a potentially useful nutrition therapy for Japanese patients who cannot adhere to calorie-restricted diet.
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When I only removed the added sugar from my diet I got down to apx. 80g a day. That one still included the occasional fruit juice. Never having had a sweet toth, actually fitted with kind of a "too sweet warning" and mostly disliking most processed foods, my added sugar consumption was mostly limited to those 6 tea spoons of sugar in my cocoa (with pure cocoa powder) for breakfast before that day. My current carb consumption of 5 - 30g a day is probably really low-carb by any definition ;)