A Review: Are Some Diet Models Beneficial or Harmful for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus?

2). The “A Secondary Analysis of the Dietary Intervention Randomized Controlled Trial” study aimed to examine the metabolic effects of three dietary patterns which they described as healthy: a low-fat diet model with restricted calories, a Mediterranean diet (MD) model with restricted calories and a low-CHO diet model with restricted calories. According to the results of that study, decreases in body weight (kg) and fasting plasma insulin levels (pmol/L) were observed after the first six months in all three dietary model intervention groups. However, the following 24-month results showed that there was an increase in both parameters but they did not go back to their initial values. 4