A little help required backing up CICO

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  • Psychgrrl
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    The article cited is someone's summary of the actual study. This article your friend is hanging her hat on references a study based on 21 adults.

    This study (below), released in December of 2014, was based on 163 overweight adults. (doi:10.1001/jama.2014.16658; Available pre-embargo to the media at http://media.jamanetwork.com)

    “In the context of an overall DASH-type diet, using glycemic index to select specific foods may not improve cardiovascular risk factors or insulin resistance,” the authors conclude.

    Robert H. Eckel, M.D., of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, writes in an accompanying editorial that many of the results of this study were contrary to what had been expected.

    “When glycemic index was lower in the high­ carbohydrate diet, insulin sensitivity not only did not increase but decreased. With the same diet pattern, levels of LDL cholesterol and apolipoprotein B (a secondary end point) increased, with no changes in HDL cholesterol or triglyceride level or blood pressure.”

    Here is something regarding weight loss:
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