The low-carbohydrate diet has been shown in clinical trials to reverse diabetes, lead to weight loss, and improve most heart disease risk factors, all of which logically should lead to longer life.
This statement based on what? Clinical trials. The point is, how diabetes type 2 was reversed, and really what does it mean, to reverse diabetes type 2? I am diabetic type 2. I straggle with this problem every day, day after day, year after year, all my life. I wish to understand, what does it meal, "reverse diabetes"? There are no one answer to this very simple question, every one use to insist it is real one easy to do.
When I read how other diabetics type 2 present they reversed diabetes type 2 I see only one point, level of sugar in blood. Sugar in blood is tricky. Today it can be normal and good, then it can be low, and after being low it is getting up, very unexpectedly. Even when someone said that A1c dropped, it still do not prove that diabetes type 2 reversed. Tricky, is not it? Then say me, what does it mean, to reverse diabetes type 2?
Level of sugar in blood can be normal, and for very long time. Is this prove that diabetes type 2 was cured? No. But it is considered as being reversed. Why this so confusing word become so popular in Med Papers? Because of if say that diabetes type 2 was cured, then why there are diabetes pandemic in the effect? Why diabetes type 2 is number 7 cause of death in CDC mortality tables? So, med pro smart move that diabetes type 2 can be reversed if diabetic stop to eat, stave. It works perfectly. Thousands posts how simple to reverse diabetes type 2. "If I could do it, then every one can do!"
Oldways is funded by grain processing companies and so the bias on the part of Harvard is understandable. Same funded bias exists with the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, and the American Cancer Society that all promote red meat and processed meat products in their diet recommendations and sample recipes. But then if these life style diseases did not exist the people working at these places would be out of a job.(Comment by someone member)
Really, just think about, if there is no low carb diet then what MD will talk about when diabetic come to clinic? Not possible. Even all mortality will be higher then 99% because of Low-carb dieting, Med Pro will defend our life style on low carbs.
It's remarkable that the authors made such definitive claims about "low-carb diets," as the paper defined this diet as up to 37% of calories from carbohydrates—not "low-carb" by the latest standards of practice. Evidence from the past 5 years shows better health when carbohydrates are kept below 30% of calories, with the greatest benefits, including reversal of type 2 diabetes, seen with a very low-carb or ketogenic diet, where carbohydrates normally total between 5% and 20%.
Authors of this article insist, there were no actual studies. But what and how to study lifestyle? How to study what people eat? Usually it is just ask questions, and consider it is true. Real studies are very different. Go to market and see what is on the shelves, and how much people buy. What products are most popular in shopping card? How much people spend on what products, low carbs or high carbs? For instance, to see if economic in good standing, take a look at the sale of men underwear. Do not ask men what they wear. Just look at the sale.
When it is pretended that one is on the low carb diet, how it is possible to see? Body weight will show amount of pounds, but there is no scale to show how much water in the body. Water does not have carbs or calories, no sugar and no salt. Water is pure. Still, water has weight, pounds, and obese person carry these pounds. Water sing its songs in lungs of victim. Pulmonary embolism. Heart is oversized. Water retention. Kidney failure. Water leads to all cause of death: heart attacks and strokes, COPD and asthma. There are no medicine to fight water obesity, no diagnose, nothing. On scale we see that person is obese, and Barking Therapy right now in the effect. No one MD see the Water on the scale.
So, what are evidence that show Diabetes type 2 reversal? 5 years is long way to go. Is this true that 5 years the same people were observed who reversed diabetes type 2? Not at all. 5 years were pretended that they run studies, and they collected money. Then they counted how many lives were saved with low carb diet. But Mortality table still show, diabetes type 2 is number 7 cause of death. In NYC it is number 4.
Weak associations are overwhelmed by other issues known to affect health, called confounders. For instance, whether a person drinks, smokes, exercises, or even goes to church has an effect on health—no one really knows how much—and researchers must try to adjust for all of them. Perhaps an unknown factor, such as an environmental toxin, has affected someone's health. Epidemiologists cannot adjust for that, as they will not have measured it.
If there are so many factors that effect our health, then why it is pretended that Diabetes type 2 is caused by high fat high calorie, high carb diet? Let us be consistent. No one know why we are diabetics type 2. There are no treatment for us when diabetes diagnosed. Just moderate own life. Simple, stop to eat. Starve yourselves. This will reverse diabetes type 2.
With so high mortality and cost of diabetes why level of sugar still not vital? BP and Temperature of body, X-ray and EKG, and blood work, cholesterol and many other tests are run every time we are in clinic. Even test of drugs for every one of us, and test on STD. The level of sugar is not on the table. With every one out of ten being diabetic, there are no blood sugar level to check up, why? It is easy, cheap, and very fast. Before start to treat patient check up level of sugar and see what treatment must be.
It is not in Med Pro interests. It is easy to publish crap what diet is best, low carb, high carb, no carb, and so on. How to moderate diabetic type 2 life when one is in hospital and sugar is over meter limits? There are two ways to deal with situation. One way is to send patient out, to take care what is on plate, to reduce weight. Another way is to start Insulin Therapy. If Insulin was started, it is cannot be stopped just after a few days in hospital. So, diabetic became insulin-dependent insulin-resistant diabetic type 2. So, usually MD in hospital take first choice. It is easy, and safe. Just Rx Healthy Life Style, and send victim at home.
The Lancet paper asserts that this weak evidence should somehow trump the far more rigorous data from randomized controlled clinical trials. These are considered the gold standard of science, simply because, whatever their flaws, they can demonstrate cause and effect. This more sound science is ignored by the Lancet authors in two ways.
Probably this is Gold Standard. But I am not scientist. I am just diabetic. For me evidence is only one, level of sugar in my blood with common daily activity. If level of sugar dropping, then medicine I take is right. If not, then I have to find another treatment with higher effect. So, in my Gold standard Low carb diet is not common. When I have to force by body every day to suffer, then it is not healthy way to live.
My Gold Standard:
Be free of pain any cause;
hunger is not good for me. I start to have headaches. If I avoid to eat then I can finish up in hospital, or have stroke.
So, no hunger, no suffering, just be happy and sound.
Take medicine what I need, and do not take medicine that give me no benefits.
It is easy to say, but so difficult to do. How do I know what medicine is good and what is not? I do not know, but I try. This is why I study medicine, medical problem, and the way how it is effected by society. This is my politic. I try to run my log book, and in this book all medicine I take, when it started, and why it was stopped, and when. When did I have some treatment or visit to hospital or clinic, and how effective this visit was.
Take time to see, what is can be cause, and what effect, when the head, and what is the tail. To see something Big we need bigger distance.
The Lancet authors, in recommending a "moderate" diet of 50%-60% carbohydrates, also ignore another body of gold-standard evidence—on exactly this diet. The "moderate" carb, low-fat diet has, after all, been enshrined as our existing official dietary guidelines for Americans for decades. Ever since the late 1970s, when the Senate launched the Dietary Goals for the United States—which later became the basis of the food pyramid—the government's number-one goal has been to "increase carbohydrate consumption to account for 55%-60% of the energy (caloric) intake."
And of course, this diet, because it is government policy, has been tested—in rigorous, clinical trials funded by the NIH. Indeed, the NIH has spent at least a billion dollars on these trials, on more than 50,000 people altogether.[17] The results were that a diet low in fat with "moderate" carbohydrates does not fight any kind of disease—not heart disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes, or any type of cancer—and does not reduce mortality.
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Every one posted that 50 years ago we were not obese or fatty. So, if I understand history of obesity correctly, it started back in 1970s when Dietary Goals were established. Sorry people, at that time I was already born and I was born diabetic. I am diabetic type 2. Nether my perfect fit in 1970, ether my obesity in 2018 let me be free of diabetes. But with Insulin in injections I this Diabetes type 2 reverse started. I can see now how wight my teeth. My nails no longer yellow and rough. My skin is smooth and no dry. So, no any diet do the job to reverse diabetes, but Insulin does. It is also reduce mortality, and prolong life of diabetics. In statistic it is one out of ten Americans. Good job I will say.
Doctors have been prescribing the government's low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets for decades now, and Americans have largely complied.Why do I need low carb diet Yet, we have not seen better health. Should we abandon promising new approaches backed by rigorous science in favor of weak, speculative data? The answer for an evidence-based clinical practice seems clear.
Now I really lost. Why do I need low carb diet? Low fat is good for me, I do not eat fat or oil, or batter, any food with this products. High carbs diet is OK, and it is MD recommended, right? All time when I read this article I was sure it was all about how low carb diet is good for health. And not the conclusion is right opposite.
I am too lazy person. I do not want to read it another time. As I said, do not let your brain be washed, does not matter by whom, MD or politics. They all start with Low carb, and finish with High carb, but we need just what is right for us.
The Latest Attack on Low-Carb Diets: Science or Politics?
by Nina E. Teicholz, MPhil; Fabiano M. Serfaty, MD
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/901910?nlid=125148_381&src=WNL_mdplsnews_180921_mscpedit_wir&uac=164666HZ&spon=17&impID=1745938&faf=1#vp_1
