Personalised nutrition or high protein low carb? What's the evidence?

[JITR]

My weight maintenance diet is based on protein, healthy fat and lots of vegetables with some oats or barley, nuts, seeds, fruit and dairy. It's evolved from my real food version of the Prof. Roy Taylor's Newcastle Diet as described in this leaflet. But is it the best diet for me?

This webinar, speaker Dr Nichola Guess, from the

e European Nutrition Leadership Platform goes a long way to answering my question; what she says provides pretty strong evidential support for the low carb way of eating, much promoted in this forum.

ENLP Webinar: Personalised Nutrition, what’s the evidence? By Dr Nicola Guess​

Dr Guess is a clinical and academic dietician, with research and clinical interests focusing on type two diabetes and cardiometabolic disease. She has been the principle or coinvestigator of more than 10 trials in diet and type two diabetes. She currently leads a large type two diabetes remission program at the University of Oxford.

This large type two diabetes remission programme is the NewDawn project supported by Diabetes UK. Its aim is to come up with four easier alternative diets to the NHS Path to Remission strict dietary approach, based on soups & shakes, by 2027.

 

[Drummer]

@JITR the low carb way of eating goes back a long way - it is a pity that it was ever abandoned and derided as a way to maintain a healthy weight and control blood glucose levels for those in need of that.

 

[JimmyBlue]

@JITR really interesting stuff, and for me it reinforces the idea that the low carb diet is the way forward. I don't find it difficult to find foods to eat and if I am honest, my biggest issue is making sure I consume sufficient carbs.