If you are diabetic, you should read this carefully. Restricting your carbohydrate intake and a low-carb diet would be very beneficial for patients with type 1 diabetes. suggests a new study. Led by Belinda Lennerz of Boston Children\u2019s Hospital, the study suggests that the diet can improve blood sugar control in type 1 diabetes, with low rates of hypoglycemia and other complications.<\/p>\n
The patients were drawn from TypeOneGrit, a Facebook community of people with type 1 diabetes committed to a very-low-carb diet as recommended by the book Dr. Bernstein\u2019s Diabetes Solution (Richard Bernstein, MD, is a co-author on the study).<\/p>\n
Of 493 people who took the survey, 316 provided enough information to be included in the analysis. For 138 of these participants, the researchers were able to confirm diabetes diagnosis, blood-sugar control measures, metabolic health measures and other outcomes with health care providers or through review of medical records. 42% of participants were children.<\/p>\n
Participants reported an average daily carbohydrate intake of 36 grams, or about five percent of total calories (for comparison, the American Diabetes Association recommends about 45% of calories come from carbohydrates). Self-reported hemoglobin A1c values – the primary measure of blood-sugar control – averaged in the normal range, at 5.67% (the target is below 7% and prevailing levels average 8.2%).<\/p>\n
Participants required lower-than-average doses of insulin (mean, 0.40 U\/kg\/day), and those for whom data were available had favourable measures of insulin sensitivity and cardiometabolic health, such as low triglyceride levels and high HDL cholesterol levels.<\/p>\n
Safety concerns have been raised about very-low-carb diets in type 1 diabetes, primarily that they increase the risk of hypoglycemia, or dangerous drops in blood sugar. However, in the study, rates of hospitalisation for hypoglycemia (1%), diabetic ketoacidosis (2%) and other diabetes complications were lower than those generally reported for type 1 diabetes populations.<\/p>\n
More than 80% of survey respondents were satisfied or very satisfied with their diabetes management. Yet about a quarter said they did not discuss the very-low-carb diet with their diabetes care providers, some citing concerns about being criticized or even being accused of child abuse.<\/p>\n
The study authors note that severe carbohydrate restriction is actually a very old approach in type 1 diabetes. Before the discovery of insulin, it extended children\u2019s lives, sometimes for years. Once insulin was introduced, carb restriction fell out of practice.<\/p>\n
But the authors believe very-low-carbohydrate diets deserve further study in type 1 diabetes. Since this study was observational in nature and not controlled, they call for randomized clinical trials to rigorously test the diet\u2019s safety and efficacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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