Low Carb Diets Don't Cause Diabetes. This Study Just Proved It.
We wonder why no one trusts science anymore.
And anyone who says "trust the science" without being willing to actually look at the science is probably full of it. A new study published in Diabetes Care, the American Diabetes Association's journal, is making the rounds claiming that low carb diets increase your risk of Type 2 diabetes by 31%.
Nearly five million person-years of follow-up. Over 20,000 documented Type 2 diabetes cases. Three massive cohort studies spanning 30 years.
That's a ground-shaking study. Low carb is the devil. It's gonna kill you.
Except I read past the abstract.
Here's what the study actually measured, and here's the much more interesting finding the researchers buried in their own results.
Problem One: That's Not a Low Carb Diet
The researchers built something called an "LCD score" and divided everyone into five quintiles ranked from most to least carbohydrate intake.
The highest quintile, the group they labeled "low carb," ate approximately 40% of th...
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