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
Why does everyone say that? It didn't-they split carb lowering into <20% and <20-45%
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Clinicians seldom use any % kcals for therapeutic carbohydrate restriction. We treat carb intake as absolute value/threshold because that's how it operates in humans w/r/t metabolic changes.
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But research usually does, and it's right there in the abstract...
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