Whats the Best Diet for Diabetes Control?
There’s little doubt that diet plays an important role in diabetes control. What a diabetic eats directly affects blood sugar and insulin levels. It’s also an important factor in preventing the many complications associated with diabetes including the number one killer of diabetics – heart disease. But, what is the best diet for diabetes control and the prevention of diabetic complications such as heart disease? A new study sheds some light on this issue. It compares a traditional low-fat diet with a Mediterranean-style diet to determine which is the better diet for diabetes control and management. In this study, researchers assigned 215 people with diabetes to either a low-fat diet or a Mediterranean type low carb diet for four years. The researchers were interested in which diet for diabetes would prove best for keeping people off of diabetes medications. What did they find? The Mediterranean diet proved superior to the traditional low-fat diet. In fact, only forty-four percent of th
