Originally Posted by EvelynS

I guess she hasn't read the study just out (authors: Gannon MC and Nuttall FQ ) of type 2 diabetics on a low carb diet (20% cho) for 5 weeks. They dramatically reduced their circulating blood sugar from 198 mg/dl to 126, and glycated haemoglobin from 9.8% to 7.6 and still decreasing at the end of the study towards an estimated 6.3-5.4%. The authors state: "Potentially this could be a patient empowering way to ameliorate hyperglycemia without pharmacological intervention". More studies like this should kill off that course.