Reduced calorie diet for type two diabetes ends early because the intensive program did not prevent heart attacks and strokes !

Hitting people on the head with a baseball bat trial !

Imagine if I started a trial and hit ten men on the head with a baseball bat. The trial would last a week and at the end of the week, stated all the men had died and we concluded hitting people with bats was a health hazard and the trial had no positive outcomes for life expectancy. Ok at this stage you may be thinking have I been hit with a bat, there’s a few out there who would like to hit me with a bat I am sure ! So what’s point of this post you may be thinking. The point is, so many trials are so incredulous, I wonder about the sanity of the boffins. The ACCORD study is a great example. This study/trial ended early because too many diabetics died. The subjects had one foot in the grave at the start of the trial. Years of obesity, heart disease poor lipid counts high HbA1c etc. etc. They then filled them to the gills with meds that have been proven to kill, Avandia, Actos and statins among others. The bottom line, an alert chimp could have predicted the outcome. Well, check this piece of nonsense I found yesterday.

Diabetes Study Ends Early With a Surprising Result !

"A large federal study of whether diet and weight loss can prevent heart attacks and strokes in overweight and obese people with Type 2 diabetes has ended two years ahead of schedule because the intensive program did not help.

“I was surprised,” said Rena Wing, the study’s chairwoman and a professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University’s medical school.

The study randomly assigned 5,145 overweight or obese people with Type 2 diabetes to either a rigorous diet and exercise regimen or to sessions in which they got general health information. The diet involved 1,200 to 1,500 calories a day for those weighing less than 250 pounds and 1,500 to 1,800 calories a day for those weighing more. The exercise program was at least 175 minutes a week of moderate exercise.

But 11 years after the study began, researchers concluded it was futile to continue — the two groups had nearly identical rates of heart attacks, strokes and cardiovascular deaths."

The $64000 questions, was the restricted calorie diet the usual ADA, NHS, DUK low fat high carb ? How much death inducing medication was used ? What state were the participants in at the start of the trial ? How long had their diabetes been out of control ? How long had they been obese ? Will we ever hear the truth ? I expect you would need a bat to get to some straight answers to those questions.

Eddie

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/health/in-study-weight-loss-did-not-prevent-heart-attacks-in-diabetics.html?_r=2&

The $64000 questions, was the restricted calorie diet the usual ADA, NHS, DUK low fat high carb ?

5.4.5 Diet

Restriction of caloric intake is the primary method of achieving weight loss. In order to aim for a weight loss of 10% of initial weight, the calorie goals are 1200-1500 kcal/day for individuals weighing 250 lbs (114 kg) or less at baseline and 1500-1800 kcal/day for individuals who weigh more than 250 lbs. These goals can be reduced to 1000-1200 kcal/day and 1200-1500 kcal/day, respectively, if participants do not lose weight satisfactorily. These calorie levels should promote a weight loss of approximately one to two lbs/week.5

The composition of the diet is structured to enhance glycemic control and to minimize cardiovascular risk factors. The recommended diet is based on guidelines of the ADA and National Cholesterol Education program96,97 and includes a maximum of 30% of total calories from total fat, a maximum of 10% of total calories from saturated fat, and a minimum of 15% of total calories from protein.

https://www.lookaheadtrial.org/public/LookAHEADProtocol.pdf

Graham