Re: Does eating carbohydrates lead to metabolic disorders?

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/full/26/8/2335

Prevalences of Diabetes and Impaired Glucose Regulation in a Danish
Population
The Inter99 study
Charlotte Glümer, MD1,2, Torben Jørgensen, MD, DMSC2 and Knut
Borch-Johnsen, MD, DMSC1
1 Steno Diabetes Centre, Gentofte, Denmark
2 Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Copenhagen County,
Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark

About the Authors:

"C.G. and K.B.J. *hold stock in* and have received research funding
from Novo Nordisk."

The asterisks are mine.

Check this out, Click on the Diabetes Care, then Healthcare
Professional, then solemnly swear, and check out all the Novo Nordisk
diabetes care products:

http://www.novonordisk.com/diabetes/default.asp

Check out their 2004 Annual Report at:

http://www.novonordisk.com/annual-report/

It looks as if Nova Nordisk's main area of business is diabetes
products.

What would happen to their sales if people found out that they could
control the progression of diabetes and drsatically reduce their
insulin and insulin testing needs with diet alone?

Nice try there, calypso. Pretty damned machiavellian and very
disturbing that these two industry whores would put this kind of junk
science out there, and that the journal would publish this marketting
crap.

TC


calypso47@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> We hear much in the popular press and in various discussion contexts, like
> this one, that some think carbohydrate intake leads to metabolic syndrome
> and that to other kinds of metabolic disorders. It is expressed in some
> form as "don't eat refined carbohydrates and avoid metabolic problems
> doing so causes". This is often presented in the context of glycemic
> index/load food consuption and avoiding eating high such foods because it
> leads to the disorders. Many notions are strung together in support of
> such conclusions, it is a testable notion that eating refined high gi/gl
> carbohydrates leads to insulin resistance, a part of the metabolic
> syndrome; and so it has been. The june 2005 "diabetes care" journal has
> this:
>
> "Dietary Glycemic Index, Glycemic Load, Fiber, Simple Sugars, and
> Insulin Resistance: The Inter99 study"
>
> "CONCLUSIONS: Habitual intake of diets with a high glycemic index and
> high glycemic load or diets with a high content of total
> carbohydrate including simple sugars was not associated with the
> probability of having insulin resistance. Furthermore, intake of
> dietary fiber was inversely associated with the probability of
> having insulin resistance."

.

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