Fight Diabetes with 'Stone Age' Diet

Filed in archive Diet , Research on July 2, 2007

Our stone age (ancient, Paleolithic times) ancestors mainly ate fruit, vegetables, nuts, lean meat and fish - a kind of diet that may best control type 2 diabetes, according to research findings at Lund University.

The main result was that the blood sugar rise in response to carbohydrate intake was markedly lower after 12 weeks in the Paleolithic group (-26%), while it barely changed in the Mediterranean group (-7%). At the end of the study, all patients in the Paleolithic group had normal blood glucose.

I think the findings say a lot about the modern age diet (or should we say, the western diet?) being the main culprit for type 2 diabetes as what is being confirmed by scientific evidences on the causes of type 2 diabetes: the western diet, people's more sedentary life in this modern age and of course the lack of exercise.

And I guess Staffan Lindeberg, lead author of this study hit the bull's eye with the following words:

"If you want to prevent or treat diabetes type 2, it may be more efficient to avoid some of our modern foods than to count calories or carbohydrate."

SO, let us think more in the lines of consuming more fruit, vegetables, nuts, lean meat and fish and probably it isn't just diabetes that we are going to prevent and control.

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