More on the Look AHEAD trial the NHS style High Carb / Low Calorie + Exercise Intervention fails, and study is abandoned after 11.5 years of a 13.5 year trial.
"But these three things are typically packaged together as the lifestyle improvements recommended to newly diagnosed diabetics. Each of them (according to conventional wisdom) show help a little bit. The goal of the study was to demonstrate that these together these interventions would improve CV health outcomes for diabetics. The fact that these measures FAILED is demonstrative that the conventional advice is wrong"
A comment from Borofergie at diabetes.co.uk
"Also, what might the outcome have been if the intervention group had been repeatedly bullied, harassed and indoctrinated to maintain a normoglycaemic, low grade ketogenic diet for 13.5 years? Say to an HbA1c of around 5%?"
A comment from Petro Dobromylskyj
A comment made by Stan on the HYPERLIPID blog.
"Peter, you beat me to it, I just noticed a writeup in the NYT about the study! It is also possible that something else may have gone badly wrong there. For one, reduction of the caloric intake by half over 11 years should have helped but it didn't! Unless their dietitians only reduced their fat and protein while kept all those "healthy" carbs in?"
The ramifications of this failed trial are going to be massive. The trial illustrates totally the stupidity of a high carb-high medication regime for type two diabetics. Over $200 million dollars spent to find out what the clued up diabetics have known for years. It seems you can get funding for almost anything, other than a long term trial to prove the benefits of a lowcarb no/minimal meds diet.
Eddie
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