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.