Diabetes
A collection of files for download on diabetes.
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Ron Raab (read his success story here (sucess-stories/19-success-stories/150-ronraab)) is featured in the article and attributes his carbohydrate restricted diet as a key component to his longevity.
This is an older research paper by Dr. Bernstein that summarizes his approach to treating diabetes. I tend to have a higher % of fat and lower % of protein in my own personal diet then what is described here, and this predates his book which I would defer to over this. But this makes a nice addition to our downloads section and has great summary info as well.
Taken from Men's Health: The Thin Man’s Diabetes America’s fastest-growing disease has a sugar-coated secret: You don’t need to be overweight for it to kill you. By Jeff O’Connell
Low-carbohydrate diet in type 2 diabetes. Stable improvement of bodyweight and glycemic control during 22 months follow-up.
This is a wonderful powerpoint presentation by Eric C. Westman, M.D M.H.S. of the Department of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center in Durham NC presented at the American Society of Bariatric Physicians on November 1, 2006.It presents some great scientific research on the topic of GI in comparison to Low Carb diets in the management of diabetes and makes the following astutue analysis (again see the data in the presentation):Very low carbohydrate diets are low glycemic dietsLow glycemic diets are not necessarily very low arbohydrate diets (i.e., a low glycemic index diet may still have 50% of calories from carbohydrate)Effects in normals and diabetics will probably be differentIf “low GI” is better than “high GI,” what about “no GI”