Consumption Of More Useful Fats Protects Against Diabetes

Joe Fowler Author: Joe Fowler Time for reading: ~3 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022
Consumption Of More Useful Fats Protects Against Diabetes

Against diabetes, it is more important to replace harmful fats and carbohydrates with healthy fats than anything else.

If you want to reduce your risk of diabetes, eat more healthy fats , is the advice given by researchers.
 
Increase the intake of healthy polyunsaturated fats at the expense of carbohydrates and saturated fats, this leads to lower blood sugar levels and significantly improves insulin control, the results of a new meta-analysis show.
 
Type 2 diabetes is a disease that is taking more and more victims around the world. Until relatively recently, it was considered a disease of the elderly, but today diabetes is increasingly rejuvenating. The population in industrialized countries affected by insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome and diabetes is enormous. For the United States alone, according to their National Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that number is 29.1 million, or 9.3 percent of the nation's population.
 
The epidemic of diabetes and insulin resistance, according to world experts, is mainly due to improper diet and overconsumption of predisposing products and sedentary lifestyle. Diabetes is insidious in that once it develops, it affects the health of the whole organism and damages the functions of a number of organs in it. It is associated with an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease, as it creates predisposing factors such as high blood pressure and high lipids in the blood.
 
High bad cholesterol or LDL has long been associated with an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. 65% of people diagnosed with diabetes between 2009 and 2012 in the United States have previously had high LDL or are taking medication for control your cholesterol, found by the CDC.
 
In their desire to bring out the best advice to people to prevent the development of type 2 diabetes, scientists are focusing their research on the effects of various carbohydrates and fats on metabolism.
 
That's why a team from Tufts University in Medford, USA and the University of Cambridge, UK, led by Fumiaki Imamura, decided to undertake different research and study the effects of different fats in the diet.
 
The researchers looked at data from 4,660 people from 102 other studies, which provided detailed information on the types and amounts of carbohydrates and fats consumed.
 
They study how different diets affect metabolic health and specifically how amounts of saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates affect the development of type 2 diabetes.
 
The study focuses on key markers such as blood sugar levels, insulin, insulin resistance and sensitivity, and the body's ability to produce insulin in response to blood sugar.
 
Their results confirm that the consumption of products rich in mono- or polyunsaturated fats has a positive effect on blood sugar control, in contrast to the consumption of carbohydrates or saturated fats, such as those of animal origin.
 
 
 
Replacing the sources of only 5% of the total energy with mono- and polyunsaturated ones shows a 0.1 decrease in the blood marker HbA1c, associated with long-term control of blood glucose. This means that the risk of type 2 diabetes is reduced by 22% and the risk of cardiovascular disease - by 6.8%.
 
According to the lead author Imamura, this is where the simple message to people can come from - do not be afraid to consume healthy fats! 
 
According to him, insulin resistance and diabetes can be prevented if you eat more foods rich in useful fats - such as walnuts, sunflower seeds, flaxseed, fish. In this mode, all kinds of vegetable oils and spreads can be used at the expense of refined carbohydrates such as white flour and sugar and animal fats. This conclusion also applies to therapeutic nutrition in diabetes.
 
This study is the first to examine the impact of different types of fats and carbohydrates in the diet on health so systematically. Presented in PLOS Medicine.

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