Recently, researchers from the Harvard School of Public
Health evaluated data on over 80,000 women participating in the famed Nurses
Health Study. They used validated food-frequency questionnaires that were
collected every four years from 1980 to 1998, and assigned each participant a
score (from 0-30), which they called the “low-carbohydrate diet score.” The
higher you scored on a scale of 0-30, the closer you followed a
low-carbohydrate dieting style.
High glycemic diets increase the risk of type II Diabetes
The researchers compared data from those who scored the
highest 10 % (low carbohydrate diet) to those who scored in the lowest 10%
(high carbohydrate diets) and found no appreciable difference in the risk for
diabetes over the course of a twenty-year follow-up period. Not only did a low-carbohydrate
diet of any composition not increase
the risk for diabetes—those following a low-carbohydrate diet with a high
percentage of vegetables and vegetable fat actually had a decreased risk.
