Mediterranean Gorge

By Quinn Phillips People with diabetes — both Type 1 and Type 2 — are often told about the importance of portion size and meal planning. Limiting portion sizes, many sources and studies say, is often the key to weight loss and better health both for people with diabetes and those in the general population. But what if the key to good health isn't limiting portions at each meal, but stuffing yourself for just one meal each day? So suggests a new study, published earlier this month in the journal PLoS ONE. According to an article on the study at Medical Daily, researchers at Linköping University in Sweden sought to find out whether a Mediterranean diet, concentrated into one large lunchtime meal, could be good for people with Type 2 diabetes, compared with either a low-carbohydrate or a low-fat diet consumed over both breakfast and lunch. According to one of the study's coauthors, the researchers decided to test this approach because in many areas of the Mediterranean, it is traditional to eat a large midday meal and a very small evening meal, if any at all. For the study, 21 participants with Type 2 diabetes (who didn't take insulin or a sulfonylurea drug) were assigned to follow each of the three diets in random order, spread out over time, for a single day. Obviously, no long-term effects could be measured with this approach, but the researchers were interested in the effects of each diet on postmeal blood glucose, insulin, and triglyceride levels. Meals for...
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