The first 10 steps to losing weight

3. Eat more fat

While overweight people with type 2 diabetes are often urged to eat a low-fat diet, research at Linkoping University in Sweden shows that losing weight on a diet including more fat and fewer carbohydrates could have a better effect on blood sugar levels and blood lipids.

This study showed that diabetic dieters who ate more fat dropped their blood sugar levels on average from 58.5 to 53.7 mmol/mol (the unit for average blood glucose). This means that the intensity of the treatment for diabetes could also be reduced, and the amounts of insulin were lowered by 30 percent.

Despite their increased fat intake with a larger portion of saturated fatty acids, their lipoproteins (cholesterol) did not get worse. Quite the contrary — their HDL, or “good” cholesterol, content increased on the high-fat diet.

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Carl Lowe

By Carl Lowe

has written about health, fitness and nutrition for a wide range of publications including Prevention Magazine, Self Magazine and Time-Life Books. The author of more than a dozen books, he has been gluten-free since 2007.

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