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13 stories for“very low carbohydrate diet”
Bergen researchers followed 193 adults with obesity for up to two years and found triglycerides fell and HDL rose, but they stress that risk markers are not heart attacks.
Oct 29, 2026
No more banned-food lists. Current diabetes nutrition guidance leans on carbohydrate quality and a simple divided plate, not counting or deprivation lists.
Sep 20, 2024
Glycaemic index measures the quality of a carbohydrate in a standardised portion nobody eats. Glycaemic load multiplies it by the amount actually on the plate, and the two frequently disagree.
Aug 14, 2026
Identical food, identical calories, identical macronutrients. The only variable was what went in the mouth first, and glucose at sixty minutes fell by 36.7 per cent. It is the cheapest intervention in diabetes nutrition.
Aug 18, 2026
A product can be free of sugar, full of refined flour, sweetened with something that still raises glucose, and carry more fat and calories than the version it replaced. Regulators in Europe eventually stopped allowing a diabetic food category altogether.
Aug 19, 2026
Telling a household built around rice to stop eating rice is advice that gets nodded at and ignored. Four changes to the same plate do more for post-meal glucose than an instruction nobody will follow.
Aug 8, 2026
Shawarma seasoning was never the carbohydrate. Roast chicken thighs and cauliflower hard, build a garlic sauce that is not thickened with anything, and the bread turns out to be optional.
Aug 10, 2026
PREDIMED tested a Mediterranean diet with added olive oil or nuts against low-fat advice. Diabetes incidence was 6.9 per cent with olive oil against 8.8 per cent on the low-fat arm, and the follow-up trial did considerably better.
Aug 15, 2026
Dates are sweet, so the assumption is that people with diabetes should avoid them. A study of Fara'd, Lulu, Bo ma'an, Dabbas and Khalas found low glycaemic indices and no significant glucose excursions in the diabetic group.
Aug 12, 2026
The 2023 guideline told people not to use non-sugar sweeteners for weight control. It explicitly does not apply to people who already have diabetes, which is precisely the group that read the headline and threw them out.
Aug 11, 2026
Wholemeal, wholegrain, multigrain, brown, granary and wheat all sound like the same promise. Only one of them reliably means the whole grain is in there, and the difference shows up in your glucose two hours later.
Aug 9, 2026
It has an authorised FDA health claim, which almost no supplement does, and meta-analyses behind it for cholesterol, blood glucose and constipation. One gel-forming property explains all three, and so does the way it goes wrong.
Aug 20, 2026
Rice flour is not a replacement for wheat, and no single flour is. Here is what each alternative actually contributes, which combinations work, and why psyllium and xanthan are not interchangeable.
Aug 11, 2026
