Great presentation by @DrAlanWBarclay tonight at the Western Sydney Diabetes nutrition forum
Key take-homes:
- sugar isn't causing diabetes
- reducing sugar intake causes weight loss through reduction of calories
- this can be done with intense (artificial) sweeteners safely
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"...but unlikely to be much greater than similarly low calorie high carb diets".
It's "as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
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Stop saying true things I can't use to sell my new miracle diet.
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I appreciate your openness to low-carbohydrate diets as a valuable tool for wt loss. As for their benefit being *limited* to wt loss, how do you reconcile that with improvements in metabolic health that precede wt loss--and that even preclude wt loss? https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/128308 …
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As far as I'm aware current best evidence supports a short-term benefit but no long-term difference for low-carb diets. Unsure if a 3-6 month improvement is enough to recommend a specific dietary pattern over anotherhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29522789/ …
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