President of Australian Diabetes Society On Paleo Diet for Diabetics: Don’t Do It

Really?

Really?

From SBS.com:

“People with type 2 diabetes should ditch the paleo diet until there’s substantial clinical evidence supporting its health benefits, warns the head of the Australian Diabetes Society.

It may be popular among celebrities but there’s little evidence to support the dozens of claims it can help manage the disease, says Associate Professor Sof Andrikopoulos.

“There have been only two trials worldwide of people with type 2 diabetes on what looks to be a paleo diet,” he said.

“Both studies had fewer than 20 participants, one had no control diet, and at 12 weeks or less, neither study lasted long enough for us to draw solid conclusions about the impact on weight or glycemic control.”

In a paper for the latest issue of the Australian Medical Journal, Andrikopoulos recommends people with type 2 diabetes seek advice from their GPs [general practitioners], registered dietitians and diabetes organizations.”

Source: Diabetics should put paleo on hold: expert | SBS News

I disagree with Prof. Andrikopoulos. We have adequate evidence to support a paleo-style diet for people with diabetes. I review it in 32 pages of my book. If you want to see the evidence right now, search this site for key words: O’Dea, Lindeberg, Jonsson, Frasetto, Ryberg, Mellberg, Boers, and Masharani.

If you seek diet advice from your general practitioner, endocrinologist, registered dietitian, and diabetes organizations, you’ll likely be told to eat too many carbohydrates, including processed man-made foods, which will wreck your glycemic control. The drug companies and medical-industrial complex will benefit at your expense.

Steve Parker, M.D.

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3 responses to “President of Australian Diabetes Society On Paleo Diet for Diabetics: Don’t Do It

  1. Here Sof goes even further. “This diet (paleo/high-fat low carb) may make things worse and may even tip you in towards diabetes”

  2. Screw the “evidence” whatever stance it supports.

    Screw the so called experts. They have got it wrong so many time in so many ways that they no longer deserve our automatic respect. Note I saidi “automatic”.

    Eat to your meter. Your meter alone will give you a good idea of what works and what doesn’t Paleo included. Make sure you test thoroughly and base your decision on how your BGs trend eating a Paleo Diet or for that matter any diet.