NEW YORK (Reuters Health) –Swedish researchers suggest that overweight patients with type 2 diabetes can control their weight and blood sugar for long time just by following a low-carbohydrate diet.
Dr. Jorgen Vesti Nielsen told that there was a possibility to have a long-term success in treatment of some type 2 diabetic patients.
In this study, the carbohydrate intake of the patients was limited to 20 percent of their total calories and the most significant noted effect of this low-carb diet was the absence of hunger, Nielsen further added.
The decrease in food intake offers body to utilize its own stored fat as a fuel and it causes weight reduction, said Nielsen from Blekingesjukhuset diabetes clinic, in Karlshamn, Sweden.
Previously, Nelsen and co researchers had given reports about bigger wegith loss and glucose control for a period of 22-month in 16 overweight patients with diabetes who were followed by a low-carbohydrate diet in a comparison with 15 similar patients that were followed a diet which contained 55 to 60 percent of energy from carbohydrates.
In their study that was originated, in the BioMed Central journal Nutrition and Metabolism Nielsen’s group reported 44 months of follow up data.
Type 2 diabetes has become a real health issue in almost every part of the world and according to estimation there are 50 million patients with type-2 diabetes world wide and most of these cases are due to high caloric diet that contains on carbohydrates.
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