Low Carb Diet and Diabetes – What Can We Learn?

Hello, good morning, how are you? Today we are going to bring up a very delicate subject, some against others in favor, about Low Carb Diet and Diabetes – What Can We Learn? 

There are two ways to treat diabetes.

The first: not changing your habits or, just as bad, maintaining a traditional diet, full of what your body can no longer handle: carbohydrates.

When this method is chosen, the only way to maintain control of diabetes is to use medication.

And I say more: with the chance of adding a few more to the list in a few years. Why?
See, if you keep doing the same thing that got you to where you are today, what makes you believe that your diabetes won't continue to get worse?

The medicine only controls blood sugar levels, but the disease has already set in and is causing damage…

The other way is to cut out what is bad for you today. Yes, carbohydrates!

Brown rice, oats, beans, mango, are very healthy… but today, already sick, your body no longer knows what to do with them. The result?
Increased blood glucose. If you are allergic to shrimp, why do you insist on eating it? Same principle!

There are not two, three or four scientific studies that show that a low-carb diet improves diabetes control… there are countless!!!
Randomized studies, reviews, meta-analyses… there’s something for everyone!

People often choose to maintain their current habits and use all the therapeutic arsenal available!

They start taking three, four, five medications to control their diabetes. They don't value their future health as much.
At this time, thinking financially is good.

That’s 500 reais per month… 6000 reais saved per year.

It's giving up traveling to an all-inclusive resort for 10 days every year so you can eat bread, rice, and pasta every day.
It's not taking advantage of the low-carb barbecue with vinaigrette by choosing Saturday night's pizza.

To add a warmer and more medically based piece of information, I will provide an excerpt from an approach by the doctor, Dr. Erika Paniago Guedes who is an Endocrinologist at the Obesity Department of the SBD and also holds a Master's and Doctorate in Medicine from UFRJ who wrote the following article:

Low-carb diets, which restrict daily carbohydrate intake, are all the rage. In recent days, the media has been reporting on a study recently published in The Lancet, an important study that has been used to disseminate medical information to the entire scientific community worldwide, with great credibility and relevance.

In this study, the authors followed 15,428 American adults aged 45-64 for 25 years and assessed the impact of diet (assessed by a food questionnaire) on the mortality of these individuals. In the same publication, the authors reviewed other articles already published that focused on the same subject. Thus, the researchers found that mortality was higher in patients who consumed extreme amounts of daily carbohydrates, that is, those who consumed less than 40% of carbohydrates per day and those who consumed more than 70% of energy ingested per day from carbohydrates.

Low-carb diets, which increase the consumption of plant-based proteins and fats, have shown benefits in weight loss and in the treatment of diabetes. Therefore, it is important to be careful when interpreting study results. The authors of this publication in The Lancet warn that, in the group with low carbohydrate intake, there was a higher consumption of meat (beef, lamb, pork) and animal fats; in this group, patients also had higher body weight and a higher smoking rate, did less physical activity and had more diabetes, which are classic risk factors for mortality from cardiovascular diseases.

The authors conclude the study by suggesting that a diet with fewer carbohydrates, but balanced with more fats and vegetable proteins, combined with measures for weight loss and reduction of cardiometabolic risk, such as physical exercise, smoking cessation and diabetes control, can be considered as a strategy to promote healthy aging.

These are choices. We must respect them.
But it must be taken consciously. Think about it.