Diabetics On High Carb Diets May Have Elevated Blood Pressure
Reuters Heath today published an article indicating High carb diet may up blood pressure in diabetics. They write, “In patients with type 2 diabetes, 14 weeks of a high-carbohydrate diet modestly raises blood pressure compared to a diet high in monounsaturated fat, new study findings indicate.
Studies evaluating the effects of high-carbohydrate and high-monounsaturated fat diets have yielded conflicting results, Dr. Abhimanyu Garg and colleagues note in their report, published in the journal Diabetes Care. They suggest that these studies may have been limited by their short duration.” [Diabetics On High Carb Diets May Have Elevated Blood Pressure]
