Simply eating less fat may reduce the risk of diabetes

weight loss cannot be held to reduce the risk of a person for diabetes, a new study argues.

Rather, the study concluded, small dietary changes can make a big difference of risk, even without weight loss and for Blacks particularly.

For the study, published online may 18 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers have developed 69 obese people at risk for diabetes diet for eight weeks with only small reductions for their intake of carbohydrates to fat. Low-fat group consume a diet composed of 27% of fatty carbohydrates and 55%. Group feeding low carbohydrate was 39 per cent fat and 43% of carbohydrates.

"Eight weeks, the Group on the diet low fat had significantly higher insulin secretion and glucose tolerance better and tend to be higher insulin sensitivity," lead author of the study, Barbara Gowera Professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said in a press release from the University. The findings have been described as more strong among black participants.

"These improvements indicate a decrease in the risk for diabetes," said Gower.

Surprisingly, she added, participants in the study were at low risk for the disease regardless of whether if they have lost any weight.

"People find it hard to lose weight," said Gower. "" "". What is important about our study is that the results suggest that attention to the quality of the diet, not the quantity, can make a difference in the risk of diabetes type 2. ?

Limiting the daily fat intake to about 27% of the diet of the person can reduce the risk of diabetes in the long term, a study found.

Researchers noted that the necessary dietary changes are minimal and therefore easy to manage.

"Diets used in this study were actually quite moderate," Laura Lee Gorée, a dietitian at the University and a co-author of the study, said in the press release. "People at risk for diabetes could easily adopt the diet low fat, we have used.".