Low carb diet may help diabetics

Overweight people with type 2 diabetes can keep their weight and blood sugar under control over the long term by following a low-carbohydrate diet, say researchers in Sweden. Dr Jorgen Vesti Nielsen, of the Blekingesjukhuset diabetes clinic, says the most significant effect of limiting study subjects’ carbohydrate intake to 20 per cent of total calories is the absence of hunger. The consequent reduction in food intake results in weight reduction, he says. The results appear in Nutrition and Metabolism.

Reuters