Atkins Diet Misconceptions: Low Carb and Diabetes (Part 2)

This video is the second half of the Atkins Diet Misconception: Diabetes series. If you have not seen Part 1, please watch it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4uwyh48rEk

The last video dealt with case damning the existing treatment or recommendations to follow a high carb diet managed with ever increasing doses of insulin. This video deals with the evidence for rather managing it with a low carb lifestyle. There are two great studies for advocating this method.

1:) Dietary carbohydrate restriction in type 2 diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome: time for a critical appraisal
Nutrition and Metabolism(Lond) 2008; 5: 9.
Numerous authors including Richard Bertstein, Mary Vernon, Jeff Volek, Eric Westman
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2359752&tool=pm...
Conducted Multi-center trial in which 63 obese men and women were randomly assigned to either diet, 21 Low Carb, 21 Control, 21 High Carb for a one year study.
This discussion focuses on type 2 diabetes but many of the principles will apply to metabolic syndrome and possibly to type 1 as well[6,7].
1. Carbohydrate restriction improves glycemic control, the primary target of nutritional therapy and reduces insulin fluctuations.
2. Carbohydrate-restricted diets are at least as effective for weight loss as low-fat diets.
3. Substitution of fat for carbohydrate is generally beneficial for markers for and incidence of CVD.
4. Carbohydrate restriction improves the features of metabolic syndrome.
An important idea guiding current medical thinking is that clustering of seemingly disparate physiologic states, obesity, atherogenic dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia and hypertension, termed metabolic syndrome (MetS) suggests a common underlying cause. A recent review showed that carbohydrate restriction improves all of these markers[24].
5. Beneficial effects of carbohydrate restriction do not require weight loss. It's not simply a weight loss argument or due to people losing weight do they achieve the benefits.



2.) Low-carbohydrate diet in type 2 diabetes: stable improvement of bodyweight and glycemic control during 44 months follow-up
Jörgen V Nielsen email and Eva A Joensson email
http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/5/1/14

Conclusion:
There is now little evidence for the claim that a fat-reduced diet for weight reduction has any particular value beyond caloric counting [10]. Current dietary recommendations seem to be a major part of their problem rather than being part of the solution. Carbohydrate restriction, however, reverses or neutralises all aspects of the metabolic syndrome [20,21].

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[snnnoopy]

You have reached me and I'm listening. I was diagnosed with type two August 30, 2011 and I am trying desperately to lose the weight. I'm down 25lbs as of October 25. my clothes feel like they have gotten bigger even though I haven't lost anymore weight, but not by much. I have tried drinking more water, cutting back on the diet sodas to next to nothing. I'm alternating swimming and weight lifting every other day. Any advice?

[bowulf]

@snnnoopy First start measuring with a tape measure.  It's important to capture the differences in a more numerical way than just the way clothes fit. You can rationalize clothes, but you can't rationalize away losses on the tape measure. You could be pushing harder in your workouts causing them to focus on building and repairing muscle tissues, and therefore retaining muscle.

[Telstar85]

I've been wondering this: When you have diabetes (in my childhood it was called sugar disease), don't you ever wonder, why it spikes? You D's have your blood sugar meters. Please use it for your own health. Find out foods that doesn't spike your blood sugar so rapidly. That's all I suggest. Don't trust me or bowulf. Do your research.

[bowulf]

@Telstar85 Very wise words...

[kerryannwong]

i am a product of low carbs it works

[bowulf]

@kerryannwong Congrats!

[deepanjali1984in]

Atkins cured my mild hypoglycemia. !!!!

[mensacyclist]

If I were a vegetarian I'd stop being a vegetarian.

[subhasts]

very good i like this

[rehndawg]

if you aren't sick hospitals go broke...they want you on insulin.

[JasonPMartin]

What many of the less intelligent critics fail to remember is that fruit is seasonal and largely unavailable for most of the year. Also, saying that Atkins is no good because when you come off it you put the weight back on is as moronic as saying that you shouldn't quit smoking because if u start again the health risks return.

[mommaplath]

Two videos I just saw support this topics. "Chow Down" and "Fat Head". I suggest everyone watch these videos. I am interested in doing a no/low carb diet, but am scared of the high fat. I need to lose about 150 lbs and it has always been ingrained in our heads that no fat = lose weight. Thank you for your inspiration and videos. I know you'll be a great help to me in my journey.