Diabetic and hungry?

EDIT from later in the day. I put this comment up on Stan's blog after reading the full text:



Stan, I think we have to note that weight gain post study was almost a kilo a week (average gain 3.1kg in the first month post study) and three patients were clinically diabetic again by this time (a quarter of the participants). Long term there is no hope for any of them unless they keep themselves so hungry as to have a low carbohydrate intake while ever they eat a "balanced diet". Some might do it, the Iron Few... Most cannot live with this sort of hunger. The fact that the rise in insulin was statistically ns should not blind us to the fact this is a product of small numbers and the routine wide SD in plasma insulin levels. The p < 0.05 fall in FFAs says insulin is physiologically elevated and easily explains the weight gain.

And predicts catastrophe.

Peter

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House move time again. Glasgow house is sold, time to buy in Norfolk. Not sure how much blogging will be happening and we're moving to a non broadband area. Dial-up here we come, but there will be a garden with room for chickens!


This one will be fun when the full text becomes available. At 600kcal/d this is a low carbohydrate diet in anyone's book. A low protein diet, a low fat diet, it has it all...

My immediate reaction is to ask what a type 2 diabetic of initial BMI 23 would look like after eight weeks on 600kcal/d! Dead skinny? Skinny dead?

Of course even if the diet was 50% carbohydrate it would only be 66g/d of carbohydrate per day. Some one should tell these folks they can do as well on this level of carbohydrate restriction without all of that nasty hunger if they ate some decent fat and protein along side their carbohydrate restriction.

Peter



From the Sky article:


Retired lorry driver Gordon Parmley, from Stocksfield in Northumberland, spent four years on daily medication for type 2 diabetes despite being only 2st overweight.

[and if he had not been overweight at all?????]

The diet worked and 18 months later he is still free of diabetes and does not have to take any tablets.

"It was very tough. I was hungry all the time. It was a starvation diet and food was on your mind all the time," he said.