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Date Posted: 12:21:08 09/14/04 Tue
Author: J.R.Smith, c.f.t.,s.f.t., p.n.s. - ISSA, USSA, ISFN
Subject: Low-fat Diet Safe for Weight Loss by Diabetics

Low-fat Diet Safe for Weight Loss by Diabetics

Reuters Health

Thursday, September 9, 2004

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A low-fat diet promotes weight loss in people with type 2 diabetes without unfavorable alterations in blood lipids or glucose control, according to a new report.

Although a low-fat, high-complex carb diet has become accepted for helping type 2 diabetics lose weight, the researchers explain in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, recent controversy has focused on whether a high-monounsaturated fat diet might avoid the possible effects of a high-carbohydrate diet in raising blood fats and glucose.

Dr. William E. Connor and colleagues from Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon investigated the pros and cons of a 6-week, low-fat diet or a high-monounsaturated fat (high-mono) diet in 11 patients with type 2 diabetes.

The low-fat diet led to a significant weight loss, the team found, whereas the high-mono diet did not. Subjects assigned to the low-fat diet consumed 212 fewer kilocalories daily than did those assigned to the high-mono diet.

"I would think the differences would become more pronounced with longer adherence to the low fat diet," Connor told Reuters Health.

Both diets similarly reduced total, LDL-, and HDL-cholesterol concentrations, and glucose control did not differ between the two, the researchers found. Also, the low-fat diet did not cause the blood levels of triglycerides to increase.

The results are in line with "older studies and current studies showing the benefit of a low-fat, high-fiber, high-carbohydrate diet in diabetics," Connor concluded.

SOURCE: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, September 2004.

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