As per the latest study, a single large meal is better for the patients suffering from diabetes type 2.
So far doctors have been advising the diabetes patients to decrease the quantity of intake and increase the number per day to control glucose level. The logic was well understood by the patients and followed. But now they will be deprived of the number of intakes because of the study made by the researchers at Linkoping University in Sweden.
Dr. Hans Guldbrand with Professor Fredrik Nystrom was the principal investigators of the study. 21 patients of diabetes type 2 were taken to study them with three different meals of macronutrient composition. One is a low fat diet another one is a low carbohydrate diet and third one is a Mediterranean diet.
Dr. Hans Guldbrand and Nystrom said, “We found that the low-carbohydrate diet increased blood glucose levels much less than the low-fat diet but that levels of triglycerides tended to be high compared to the low-fat diet.”
Nystrom said, “It is very interesting that the Mediterranean diet, without breakfast and with a massive lunch with wine, did not induce higher blood glucose levels than the low-fat diet lunch, despite such a large single meal.”
He further said, “This suggests that it is favorable to have a large meal instead of several smaller meals when you have diabetes, and it is surprising how often one today refers to the usefulness of the so-called Mediterranean diet but forgets that it also traditionally meant the absence of a breakfast. Our results give reason to reconsider both nutritional composition and meal arrangements for patients with diabetes.”
If the intakes of the food like above are to be observed as above, the doses of the insulin and timings also will change.
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