Low carb diet should be first line of defence for diabetes say 24 experts !

A panel of 24 respected medical experts say a low-carb diet should be the first line of defense for treating diabetes, according to a report published Wednesday in the medical journal Nutrition.

Scientists said low-carb diets can even eliminate the need for diabetes drugs because they work immediately to reduce high blood sugar, which is the most salient aspect of diabetes.

Dr. Jeff Volek, a registered dietitian and co-author of the study, agrees. By drastically reducing carbs and replacing them with healthy, unprocessed fats, we can boost our fat-burning capacity, experience more stable blood sugar levels, and ward off degenerative conditions such as heart disease, obesity, dementia and diabetes.

"The ketogenic diet shows promise as a way to manage some cancers," study co-author Dr. Fine told me in an exclusive interview. Fine, a professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, echoed the sentiments of renowned cancer scientist Dr. Thomas Seyfried, whose decades of research at Boston College has shown that a ketogenic diet can defeat cancer because cancer is a metabolic disease.

Earlier this week, a study published in Epilepsy Today confirmed the efficacy of the low-carb ketogenic diet for managing epileptic seizures. On Wednesday, Time magazine — which has long embraced calorie-counting as the holy grail for weight loss — finally conceded that following a low-carb, high-fat diet such as the Paleo, ketogenic or Atkins diets may be a better approach to weight loss than calorie restriction.

Dr. David Ludwig, a nutrition professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, said low-fat diets that emphasize calorie quantity over calorie quality have proven a dismal failure for long-term weight loss success. “Low-carb diets outperform a low-fat diet every time, and that wouldn’t be true if calories were the only measure that mattered,” said Ludwig.

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Many thanks to the person that sent in the link to this article today. Yet another nail in the coffin of calories in calories out, and a low fat high carb diet is the way to go.

Eddie