Paleolithic diet as a potential dietary management option for type 2 diabetes: A scoping review
Background and aims: Despite its prevalence in the media, uncertainty surrounds the effectiveness of the paleolithic diet for the management of type 2 diabetes. Our scoping review aims to assess the efficacy of the paleolithic diet in managing body weight, glycemia, and lipidemia in comparison to re...
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| description | Background and aims: Despite its prevalence in the media, uncertainty surrounds the effectiveness of the paleolithic diet for the management of type 2 diabetes. Our scoping review aims to assess the efficacy of the paleolithic diet in managing body weight, glycemia, and lipidemia in comparison to recommended diets for type 2 diabetes management. Methods and results: We conducted searches in Medline, Scopus, Embase, and CINAHL to identify pertinent randomized controlled trials up to Mar 2024. Our review incorporated 3 reports from 2 randomized controlled trials involving 37 Caucasian participants. Comparative analysis of the paleolithic diet against recommended diabetic diets revealed encouraging outcomes, manifesting in the improvement of glycemic and lipid profiles in type 2 diabetes patients. However, there were mixed results in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Conclusions: Paleolithic diet hints at potentially favorable effects on type 2 diabetes, but evidence is severely limited. Rigorously designed larger trials evaluating distinct paleolithic diets on clinical outcomes while monitoring safety and feasibility are critically needed before making recommendations. Registration: This scoping review has been registered at https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero as CRD42021226788. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-744c8ae040194caca4b3eaa1e6b37e7a2024-04-15T04:05:45ZengElsevierHuman Nutrition & Metabolism2666-14972024-06-0136200264Paleolithic diet as a potential dietary management option for type 2 diabetes: A scoping reviewRuolin Yan0Jimmy Chun Yu Louie1School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of ChinaSchool of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China; Department of Nursing and Allied Health, School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia; Corresponding author. SPW203, Swinburne Place West Building, 1 John St, Hawthorn, VIC, 3122, Australia.Background and aims: Despite its prevalence in the media, uncertainty surrounds the effectiveness of the paleolithic diet for the management of type 2 diabetes. Our scoping review aims to assess the efficacy of the paleolithic diet in managing body weight, glycemia, and lipidemia in comparison to recommended diets for type 2 diabetes management. Methods and results: We conducted searches in Medline, Scopus, Embase, and CINAHL to identify pertinent randomized controlled trials up to Mar 2024. Our review incorporated 3 reports from 2 randomized controlled trials involving 37 Caucasian participants. Comparative analysis of the paleolithic diet against recommended diabetic diets revealed encouraging outcomes, manifesting in the improvement of glycemic and lipid profiles in type 2 diabetes patients. However, there were mixed results in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Conclusions: Paleolithic diet hints at potentially favorable effects on type 2 diabetes, but evidence is severely limited. Rigorously designed larger trials evaluating distinct paleolithic diets on clinical outcomes while monitoring safety and feasibility are critically needed before making recommendations. Registration: This scoping review has been registered at https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero as CRD42021226788.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666149724000264type 2 diabetes mellitusObesityPaleolithic dietTreatment |
| spellingShingle | Ruolin Yan Jimmy Chun Yu Louie Paleolithic diet as a potential dietary management option for type 2 diabetes: A scoping review Human Nutrition & Metabolism type 2 diabetes mellitus Obesity Paleolithic diet Treatment |
| title | Paleolithic diet as a potential dietary management option for type 2 diabetes: A scoping review |
| title_full | Paleolithic diet as a potential dietary management option for type 2 diabetes: A scoping review |
| title_fullStr | Paleolithic diet as a potential dietary management option for type 2 diabetes: A scoping review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Paleolithic diet as a potential dietary management option for type 2 diabetes: A scoping review |
| title_short | Paleolithic diet as a potential dietary management option for type 2 diabetes: A scoping review |
| title_sort | paleolithic diet as a potential dietary management option for type 2 diabetes a scoping review |
| topic | type 2 diabetes mellitus Obesity Paleolithic diet Treatment |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666149724000264 |
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