Low-carb diets may raise risk of diabetes: Aussie study
Lead author Professor Barbora de Courten says their findings highlight the need to look at the quality of carbs, fats and proteins.
Low-carb diets — long touted as the answer to curbing weight gain — may raise a patient’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 20%, a large Victorian study shows.
The authors say the increased risk from a low-carb eating pattern appears to be related to obesity, possibly due to a diet higher in fat and lower in fibre.
Researchers from Monash and RMIT universities analysed the self-reported diets of almost 40,000 Melburnians aged 40-69 who were recruited between 1990 and 1994.
They assessed the percentage of carbohydrates in their diet then related it to the risk of developing type 2 diabetes over 17 years’ follow-up.
