Re:South Asian people undergo type 2 diabetes remission with...
by dmix on Monday November 28, 2022 @03:14AM
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Low-calorie diets are a poor gateway to weight loss and health, where low-carb counts tends to do the real work. Calorie-counting typically leaves people hungry when they should just be eating better food.
Mediterranean, paleo, vegetarian, low-calorie etc diets almost always achieve the same low-carb goals, but low-calorie is the least practical...while sadly also being the most popular.
Just telling people to "eat less" is never an effective solution. There's a severe lack of good studies showing low-calories actually lowers weight long-term. The fact this study has 25 people is typical.
If you can eat a stable amount of food until satiety (still not-excessive amounts) while still achieving the same health/weight goals then obviously that would be the best solution.
I've asked before on HN to send me a study showing low-calorie diets are effective at reducing weight longterm and I still haven't seen one. Yet low-carb and type 2 diabetes go hand-in-hand with other treatments (most importantly pre-diabetics which is critical).
Mediterranean, paleo, vegetarian, low-calorie etc diets almost always achieve the same low-carb goals, but low-calorie is the least practical...while sadly also being the most popular.
Just telling people to "eat less" is never an effective solution. There's a severe lack of good studies showing low-calories actually lowers weight long-term. The fact this study has 25 people is typical.
If you can eat a stable amount of food until satiety (still not-excessive amounts) while still achieving the same health/weight goals then obviously that would be the best solution.
I've asked before on HN to send me a study showing low-calorie diets are effective at reducing weight longterm and I still haven't seen one. Yet low-carb and type 2 diabetes go hand-in-hand with other treatments (most importantly pre-diabetics which is critical).