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