Friday, April 18, 2014

Mediterranean diet more effective than low-fat diet for slowing diabetes progression | Fox News

Mediterranean diet more effective than low-fat diet for slowing diabetes progression | Fox News: "There's been lots of epidemiology suggesting that a Mediterranean diet was beneficial with metabolic syndrome and diabetes," Dr. Leanne Olansky told Reuters Health.

"But this was a randomized controlled trial, so we know it really was the diet causing the results," she said. "This is the kind of evidence that we use to determine if drugs are effective."

"Everybody thinks of fat as being bad, but this shows that it depends on what kind of fat," said Olansky, an endocrinologist at the Cleveland Clinic who was not involved in the new study.

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