Advising a low fat diet has been the standard approach promoted by governmental agencies for a long time, for the general population as well as for those with diabetes. These recommendations have not been able to help stem the tide of increasing obesity and diabetes in our country. A study conducted by 26 doctors and nutritional researchers is challenging these official recommendations and say that based on the most current research the standard advice should be changed. They feel that people with either both Type I or Type II diabetes should follow a low carbohydrate diet.
Changing official government backed ideas is very difficult and the lead author of the research paper published in the journal Nutrition speaks to this issue. “We’ve tried to present clearly, the most obvious and least controversial arguments for going with carbohydrate restriction,” said Richard David Feinman, Ph.D. … “acknowledging this paper calls for change. The low-fat paradigm, which held things back, is virtually dead as a major biological idea. Diabetes is too serious a disease for us to try to save face by holding onto ideas that fail.” The title of their research paper is Dietary Carbohydrate Restriction as the First Approach in Diabetes Management. Critical review and evidence base.
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