| "NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people with type 2 diabetes, it may not matter whether they cut fat or cut carbohydrates to trim down, as long as they lose weight, a small study suggests." "There was no significant difference in weight loss, blood sugar, or triglyceride levels between people with type 2 diabetes after 16 weeks on a low fat or low carbohydrate diet, Dr. Tracey McLaughlin of California's Stanford University and colleagues found." "Previous research has shown that low carb diets may be as effective as low fat diets, or more so, in helping people without diabetes lose weight, cut harmful triglycerides, and boost levels of "good" HDL cholesterol, McLaughlin and her team explain in the journal Diabetes Care. " "To understand whether diet type might influence its effectiveness in people with diabetes, they randomly assigned 29 overweight people with type 2 diabetes to a 60 percent carbohydrate, 25 percent fat and 15 percent protein diet or a regimen including 40 percent carbohydrate, 45 percent fat, and 15 percent protein. " "Four months later, men and women in the low fat diet group had lost 7 kilograms (15.4 lbs), compared to 5.9 kilograms (13 lbs) in those in the low carb diet group -- not a statistically significant difference. Both groups showed similar reductions in several measures of blood sugar, triglyceride levels, and insulin levels." "In a previous study, the researchers note, they found
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