The following is published today in one of the biggest newspaper in Sweden. Ann Fernholm deiced to put her career as molecular biotechnologist at a halt and became a science journalist instead. If someone knows how the body on a cellular level works, it is Ann. The text is translated from Swedish using google, but Im pretty sure you get the picture. DISCUSSION The dietary guidelines that many diabetics get the care is outdated. Prestige in the scientific community hampering the development and it costs taxpayers billions each year. Last summer , the results from a scientific study that should have caused headlines on billboards around Sweden . The study , Look AHEAD , is the largest assessment ever made of the lifestyle advice that diabetics have had in recent decades. Thousands of people received intensive support to follow a low-calorie low fat diet and exercising . They lost weight and group weighed in all the years of the study, less than the control group. BUT . After nine years, the researchers stopped the study early . Weight loss had no significant effect on morbidity and mortality in cardiovascular disease. The results show clearly that with the lifestyle consultations that diabetics have been in care order has been wasted money and wasted time . In the book A sweeter blood, I have examined the scientific basis for low-fat diets . The belief that the less fat in the diet could protect the heart , rests on an assumption that scientists did in the 1950s : that total cholesterol levels would be the most important measure of health. The decision was made not on scientific grounds , but since the 1970s totally dominated all forms of dietary guidelines. Even with type 1 diabetes , juvenile diabetes , has been recommended to especially avoid fat, despite the fact that high cholesterol is not even a part of their medical problems. Although type 1 diabetes according to nutritionists primarily fill your plate with carbohydrates, while research clearly shows that high blood sugar causes heart disease. Diabetics, regardless of type , are at 2-3 times greater risk of cardiovascular disease than a healthy person . A large European study from 2004 shows that nearly seven out of ten people who get coronary heart disease either has diabetes or pre-diabetes. Molecular biology research also shows high blood glucose levels run an inflammation of the blood vessels , leading to atherosclerosis. The Look AHEAD intervention failed, can easily be explained by a low fat diet , which by definition is rich in carbohydrates increase blood sugar levels , allows diabetics blood sugar commute too much. The fear of fat that was born in the 1970s , seems to have led many doctors to almost completely forget that diabetes was once called for diabetes. If 1920s diabetics had had todays dietary guidelines , they quickly died. In fact, dietary advice to diabetics based on physician can simultaneously print drug that counteracts the effect of carbohydrates on blood sugar. Unfortunately, todays rancorous debate diet that many scientists and physicians will continue to shun calories, fat and cholesterol more than anything else. Hundreds diabetics from LCHF movement testify that a strict low carbohydrate diets have a dramatic effect on their blood sugar and health. Many races in weight and can completely stop taking their medications. But leading nutrition scientists dismiss their stories as funny curiosities. Their chilly prestige is an obstacle in the way of development. Type 2 diabetes is one of our most common diseases. In addition to all the suffering , is the cost of the disease to between 0.5-1 per cent of its GDP. A staggering amount of money. To untie the knots in the diet debate , the state needs to invest in good research. It requires targeted funding for high-quality scientific studies unprejudiced evaluates the lifestyle advice that best protects diabetic hearts. An investment of 100 million is a drop in the ocean compared to what health care costs . For Sweden 365 000 diabetics may however mean the difference between a healthy life and an early death. Ann Fernholm
Posted on: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 12:26:32 +0000
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