What diet will benefit people with high insulin levels?(slow weight losers read this)

[Leander]

I'm a type 2 diabetic and I was diagnosed about 2 years ago. I've been trying to diet and exercise without much success for over the last few months.

I finally decided to do some research and I learned that often times diabetics (type 2) have difficulty losing weight because they have high levels of insulin in the body. Unfortunately the disease prevents the insulin from efficiently breaking down the glycogen in the blood which means that the insulin remains in the body. From what I've researched high levels of insulin makes it much more difficult to lose weight which explains why when I did dieting and exercising I found it extremely hard to drop pounds.

Also what further compounds that problem is that the medication diabetics take stimulate the pancreas to produce more insulin and also try to cause the insulin to more effectively break down glucose.

So for those of you who have slow weight loss issues it could be because of a diabetic condition or excess insulin in the body.

So I guess my question is to the vets of the board is there a diet for people with high insulin levels that can help them effectively lose weight?

 

[MS]

High protein vs high carbohydrate hypoenergetic diet in treatment of obese normoinsulinemic
and hyperinsulinemic subjects

Abstract

This study tests the hypothesis that hyperinsulinemic obese subjects respond differently from normoinsulinemics to changes in composition of hypoenergetic diets. Twenty-seven obese male subjects, 13 hyperinsulinemic and 14 normoinsulinemics, were fed for 4 weeks either a high protein or a high carbohydrate hypoenergetic diet providing 80% of their resting energy expenditure. On the high protein diet weight loss was significantly higher in hyperinsulinemic as compared to normoinsulinemics group. Alternatively, the hyperinsulinemic group lost less weight than normoinsulinemics group on the high carb diet. The high carb diets resulted in a considerable and similar reduction in resting energy expenditure in both hyperinsulinemic and normoinsulinemics groups as opposed to the high protein diet, which maintained resting energy expenditure in both hyperinsulinemic and normoinsulinemics. A higher decrease and normalization of fasting insulin levels was observed in the hyperinsulinemic group on the high protein as compared to high carb diet. In conclusion, hyperinsulinemic, in contrast to normoinsulinemic obese subjects, seem to achieve better weight reduction, less decline in energy expenditure, and normalization of insulin levels on high protein than isocaloric high carb diet.



TRANSLATION: Type 2 diabetics and pre-diabetics (and everyone else for that matter) should eat high protein and low carbs to lose fat. In this study, the high protein diet was 45% calories from protein, 25% calories from carbs and 30% calories from fats. On this diet, folks with high insulin levels lost more fat and maintained a higher metabolic rate than those put on a higher carb diet.