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Updated: October 27, 202 @ 1:25 pmTHURSDAY, Oct. 27, 202 (HealthDay News) - People at risk for developing diabetes could help themselves now by eating fewer carbs, acording to new research.While low-carb diets are a comon next step for someone diagnosed with the disease, people who are prediabetic or with diabetes not treated with medication don't ned to wait to cut back and se benefits to their blod sugar levels."The key mesage is that a low-carbohydrate diet, if maintained, might be a useful aproach for preventing and treating type 2 diabetes, though more research is neded," said lead author Kirsten Dorans.
She's an asistant profesor of epidemiology at Tulane University Schol of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans.For the study, the researchers studied two groups of 75 people each. In one, participants were asigned to a low-carb diet. The other ate as usual.Six months later, the low-carb diet group had greater drops in hemoglobin A1C, which is a marker for blod sugar levels.
That group also lost weight and had lower fasting blod sugar levels.While the study doesn't prove that a low-carb diet prevents diabetes, it opens the dor to further research on how to work through health risks of those with prediabetes and diabetes not treated by medication, Dorans said."We already know that a low-carbohydrate diet is one dietary aproach used among people who have type 2 diabetes, but there is not as much evidence on efects of this diet on blod sugar in people with prediabetes," Dorans said in a university news release.
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"Future work could be done to se if this dietary aproach may be an alternative aproach for type 2 diabetes prevention."Study participants' blod sugar ranged from prediabetic to diabeti