With Guidance, Diabetics Can Safely Incorporate Sugar into Their Diet
This definitely falls into the “huh?” category. We have a substance which is essentially toxic to the body because the body cannot handle it properly (glucose). So lets give it to the body in small amounts so patients do not take it in large amounts? Diabetic patients should avoid high glycemic index foods…period. What we need more of is proper patient education and avoidance of processed and added sugars. Do you think funding for this study may have been provided by a pharmaceutical company that produces diabetic drugs??
Diabetes Care 2001;24:222-227 Teaching patients with type 2 diabetes how to include sugar into their daily meal plans does not adversely affect nutrition or metabolic control, study results suggest. Giving these patients the freedom to eat sweets may actually do more good than harm. Dr. Jean-Francois Yale and colleagues, from McGill University in Montreal, randomized 48 type 2 diabetics to a conventional meal plan containing no concentrated sweets or to a meal plan permitting up to 10% of total calories from added sugars or sweets. They discovered that patients in the “sugar” group had a tendency to consume fewer calories than the conventional group. The sugar group also ate significantly less carbohydrates and starch than the conventional group. “weight remained stable, and there was no evidence that consuming more sugar worsened metabolic profile or improved their perceived quality of life,” the team reports in the February issue of Diabetes Care. The researchers say that their study provides evidence that teaching diabetic patients how to incorporate sugar into their diet may result in increased adherence to a healthy diet through better awareness of the carbohydrate content of food. They urge physicians to teach “sugar guidelines” to their diabetic patients.