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In the longest-term study of its kind, researchers pitted two popular diets head to head — a low-fat American Heart Association
In the longest-term study of its kind, researchers pitted two popular diets head to head — a low-fat American Heart Association
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2015-07-27
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In the longest-term study of its kind, researchers pitted two popular diets head to head — a low-fat American Heart Association style diet and a carb-controlled Mediterranean diet, each combined with regular physical activity — in a population of overweight patients who had Type 2 diabetes.
Researchers found that over the four-year study, patients who adhered to the Mediterranean-style eating plan maintained lower blood-sugar levels for a longer time than those in the low-fat-diet group. On the basis of their findings, the study’s authors suggest that some diabetes patients may be able to substitute diet and exercise for blood-sugar-lowering medications.
The study involved 215 overweight adults in Naples, Italy, who were newly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Patients were randomly divided into two diet groups: the low-fat eaters were instructed to follow a regimen rich in whole grains, fruits and vegetables and low in additional fats, sweets and high-fat snacks; no more than 30% of daily calories were to come from fat and no more than 10% from saturated fat. The Mediterranean-diet group was taught to eat lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and healthy fats, including olive oil, with an emphasis on lean protein sources such as fish, chicken and nuts. Mediterranean dieters were instructed to limit carbohydrate intake to less than 50% of their daily calories.
All dieters were encouraged to exercise regularly and received regular nutrition counseling throughout the course of the study. Regardless of the specific eating plan, the study’s participants were required to restrict their daily caloric intake: 1,800 calories maximum per day for men, and 1,500 calories daily for women — a significant reduction from what the average American eats daily (about 2,600 calories for men and 1,800 calories for women, according to government statistics).
By the end of the study, which was published in the Sept. 1 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, 56% of patients following the Mediterranean diet were able to control their blood sugar without medication, compared with 30% of those on the low-fat regimen. The Mediterranean dieters were also able to maintain slightly more weight loss than the low-fat group — 8.4 lb. vs. 7.1 lb. — and showed small improvements in triglyceride and HDL cholesterol levels, both risk factors for heart disease.
"A Mediterranean-style diet is a very important part in the treatment of diabetes. We knew that," says Dr. Loren Greene, a New York University Medical Center endocrinologist, who was not involved in the study. "But there just hasn’t been a good study to confirm this before." Some past studies have suggested that eating fewer carbohydrates can help diabetes patients lower their blood sugar. Other research has shown that intake of monounsaturated fats like olive oil can improve patients’ insulin sensitivity, allowing the body to naturally control blood sugar more effectively.
The current study does not make clear, however, whether diet alone can reduce blood sugar enough to eliminate the use of diabetes medication or whether it is even advisable to forgo medication at all. Participants in the new study were kept off drugs when their A
1
C levels — a measurement that indicates a patient’s blood-sugar levels over the previous three months — were below 7%, the standard cutoff for what is considered controlled blood sugar. But "we don’t know for sure if people with A
1
C levels under 7% still need to be on drugs," says Greene. "The research just hasn’t answered that question yet." Recent studies suggest that using blood-sugar-controlling medication even among the 57 million Americans who have prediabetes — meaning they have elevated, but not dangerously high blood sugar and are at very high risk of developing diabetes — may prevent the development of heart disease and stroke.
While diabetes doctors generally agree that the first line of defense against Type 2 diabetes should always be exercise and diet, many recommend also using drugs. For its part, the American Diabetes Association advises patients with Type 2 diabetes to make appropriate lifestyle changes and to start a drug regimen immediately upon diagnosis. Dr. R. Paul Robertson, a spokesperson for the organization, says that for people with diabetes, "the goal should not be to avoid drugs. It is to do everything you can to keep your sugar levels down".
Still, many doctors acknowledge patients’ aversion to chronic drug-taking. "Almost universally, people don’t want to take medicine if they can avoid, it," says Greene. And physicians, including internist Dr. Christine Laine, who is the editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine, point out that the direct and indirect costs associated with taking a drug — even one as widely prescribed as the generic diabetes medication metformin — can serve as a barrier for many patients, especially among disadvantaged populations and those without health insurance.
Whether avoidance of medication in certain cases proves to be reasonable, for now it can at least be used as an effective incentive to improve lifestyle habits, says Greene: "If you are told, ’If you don’t want to go on medicine, stick to this diet,’ then that’s a pretty valuable tool at least for patient compliance."
According to the passage, Mediterranean diet
选项
A、can’t control the blood sugar unless combined with exercise.
B、is better than the low-fat diet in treating diabetes.
C、involves more carbohydrates than the low-fat diet.
D、can completely replace diabetes drugs.
答案
B
解析
事实细节题。文中前二段提到“…坚持地中海式饮食的糖尿病患者和坚持低脂肪饮食的患者结合定期运动能够长时间地维持较低的血糖水平”,这一研究发现包含了糖尿病患者经常的运动,但这不能说明“不与运动相结合,地中海式饮食就不能控制血糖,故[A]不正确;[B]“在治疗糖尿病上,地中海式饮食比低脂肪饮食效果好”,这正是原文实验的结果,在第二段中有具体的说明,所以[B]与原文内容吻合,是答案:[C]“它所含的碳水化合物比低脂肪饮食多”不正确,文章第三段最后一句提到地中海式饮食严格控制碳水化合物的摄入;[D]“能够完全代替糖尿病药物”,completely夸大了其作用,与文章的主要观点不吻合,所以[D]也不正确。
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