|
Item
#9
Increased
Protein And Reduced Fat Has No Significant Effect On Weight Loss
Among Type 2 Diabetics
Type
2 diabetics do not increase their weight loss to any significant
degree while following a low-fat diet with an increased protein -
carbohydrate ratio.
Nor
does the diet soften the drop in resting energy expenditure.
Clinicians from University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
questioned how a high protein diet, in comparison with a
low-protein diet, would effect the weight of patients with type 2
diabetes. Furthermore, they investigated how resting energy
expenditure (REE), and the thermic effect of food (TEF) affected
patients during moderate energy restriction.
The patients received either a high protein diet (28 percent
protein and 42 percent carbohydrates) or a low-protein diet (16
percent protein and 55 percent carbohydrate), over eight weeks of
energy restriction when they were restricted to 1,600 kcal/daily,
and four weeks of energy balance.
Patients were weighed, and their body composition and resting
energy expenditure was measured. Over a period of two hours,
clinicians also determined the TEF response to either diet at the
first and 12-week.
Their mean weight loss was 4.6 ± 0.4 kg of which 4.5 ± 0.4 kg
was fat. There was, however, no dietary effect. The TEF was
greater after a high protein meal, in comparison with the low
protein meal at both 0 and 12 weeks. REE and TEF were reduced
similarly with both high and low protein diets. Diabetes
Care 2002 Vol 25 pp 652-657
================================
FACT:
Health
care costs attributed to diabetes are over $100 Billion annually!
================================
Back / Next Item
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
|
