Cutting back on carbs could help treat both diabetes and prediabetes – new study

“We already know that a low-carbohydrate diet is one dietary approach used among people who have type 2 diabetes, but there is not as much evidence on effects of this diet on blood sugar in people with prediabetes.

“Future work could be done to see if this dietary approach may be an alternative approach for type 2 diabetes prevention.”

The study, which was published in the JAMA Network Open journal, involved participants whose blood sugar ranged from prediabetic to diabetic levels and who were not on diabetes medication.

People in the low-carb group saw A1c levels drop 0.23 percent more than the usual diet group, which Ms Dorans called “modest but clinically relevant.”

It is also worth noting that fats made up around half of the calories eaten by those in the low-carb group, however, they were mostly healthy monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats such as those found in foods like olive oil and nuts.

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