Interesting new study - 28 participants were fed either isocaloric low-carb or standard diabetes diets, those on low-carb showed modest short-term improvements in blood sugarhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00125-019-4956-4 …
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Main results are here. A drop of 0.5% in HbA1c as shown between the low-carb and normal diets is not insignificant over this time periodpic.twitter.com/Jrh9NJeZIA
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That being said, this fits neatly into the literature which tends to show a short-term benefit that lags over months and years
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It's also annoying that the study used a per-protocol analysis, excluding (it appears) 4 people who were randomized but either dropped out or did not take part in the interventionpic.twitter.com/VloMDXhU21
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Excluding the “inability to adhere to diet” is very annoying in a nutrition study!
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Yeh it irks me that an otherwise good study would follow this protocol
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