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Dr Unwin says the low-carb approach to type 2 diabetes treatment is evidence based and was the main method used before effective drugs were invented.
While agreeing it is true, diabetes control before drugs did rely on avoiding carbs, Prof Frost makes the point that: ‘Patients’ quality of life was horrendous. They suffered ill health, and died rapidly.’ [T1 perchance?] By far the biggest cause of death in diabetics, today, is heart disease, he adds: ‘To avoid heart disease, being a healthy weight and having a diet that’s lower in saturated fat is best, not low-carb but high fat.’ [poor nutritional knowledge]
Professor Partha Kar, NHS England’s chief diabetes expert, argues that the only scientifically proven way to get type 2 diabetes under control, with diet, is to shed excess pounds: ‘The evidence, as far as trials go, sits with low calorie diets,’ he said. [won't shed pounds since insulin is high. Low Carb improves IR and helps weight loss]
Dr Unwin’s patients undoubtedly lost weight. This will be, Prof Kar says, because they were consuming fewer calories than they burned – not specifically because they’d cut out carbs. And it’s because they lost weight that their type 2 diabetes went into remission. [nope]
‘Some low-carb evangelists say it’s all about sugar, but this isn’t backed up by science,’ he adds. [I think it's all about blood-sugar, not sugar!!!]
While people on low-carb diets can shift weight fast and reduce blood sugar, the benefits rarely last after 12 months [not if you go back to eating carbs, no! ]
So does sugar become a poison to type 2 diabetics? ‘That’s not supported by the evidence,’ answers Prof Kar. [WHAT!? Unless he was using "poison" in the technical sense!]
All the professors agree that low-carb diets show no long-term advantage over other weight-loss methods. [the studies they saw were prob not Low Carb but lower carb calorie restriction]
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Such ignorance on display by the "experts" is unbelievable. It's like that meme "There's no good evidence to support Low Carb = I've never seen any good studies and I'm going to make sure I never do!"
As if Low Fat diets have a good track record! (2-year failure rate is >98%)
How silly of me: OBVIOUSLY the NHS is being effective at controlling rates of obesity and T2D with Low Fat!!!! Way to go!!! NHS will be bankrupt by T2D alone in 25 years if current rates continue. Suggest they sack Prof Kar and get someone who is being effective at getting the job done...
Bizarre! Utterly bizarre!