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High Carb vs. High Fat for Obese Type II Diabetics and What Really Happens, When Science Meets Real Life

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Image 1: "You told me to eat more protein and this burger has both meat and cheese!" - This and other mishaps are among the reasons why calories still count in the books of most dietitians. Today's SuppVersity post fits in nicely with the latest installment of the Intermittent Thoughts from yesterday and the post on the "heart-healthy low fat diet" from Friday, as it is about one of the few large(r) scale, long(er) term human trials on the effects of diets with different macronutrient-ratios in insulin-resistant human beings. As you would expect from an expensive nationally funded trial, a "high fat" diet (in the actual sense, not like the SAD diet from Friday ) was not part of the study design and that despite the fact that not the US, but the New Zealand Health Research Council was the official financier of the multicentre (meaning that it was a corporation of several institutions) parallel design, blinded randomised control trial, the results ...

Carbohydrate Restriction Reduces Liver Triglycerides More Effectively Than Calorie Restriction - With Equal Weight Loss Outcomes.

A calorie is not a calorie, I hope you knew that even before Garry Taubes published his famous NY Times best-seller. Yet, in case you are still looking for respective studies to show to medially indoctrinated family members or friends, who still believe that - even if fat is not the enemy - half ratios would be the key to health & longevity, you might be interested in the results of a very recent investigation by Browning et al. ( Browning. 2011 ). The scientists put a group 18 non-alcoholic-fatty-liver patients on either a carbohydrate-restricted (<20g/day) or a calorie restricted (1200-1500kcal/day) diet - just to make sure you get this right: the carb-restricted group ate as much calories as they wanted! - and measured hepatic triglyceride levels before and after the 2 week dietary intervention. Probably to the surprise of many members of the medical orthodoxy, both groups lost about the same amount of weight ( in fact the low-carb group lost -4.6kg, while the low-calor...
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