Low Glycemic Diets Can Reduce Medication Needs

Overweight and obese diabetes patients who followed a low-glycemic diet reduced their need for anti-diabetes drugs by 86% at three weeks, compared with 6% in those who had a low-fat diet. However, the transition to a low-glycemic diet helped cut medication needs by 57% among those in the low-fat group, researchers said. The low-glycemic diet was also associated with declines in mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure levels, researchers added. Presented at the Prediabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome 2013 Congress