There is great debate in the health world about the best diet, especially to control prediabetes or Type 2 diabetes. While many medical professionals counsel patients to eat a “low-carb” diet, there is little consensus on how low to go with carb consumption or what carbs to eat.

With this as background, Stanford University conducted a randomized clinical trial to compare the benefits of the Keto diet (low carb, high fat) with the Mediterranean diet (low carb, moderately high fat diet) and analyzed the benefits of each in terms of controlling blood glucose and weight. The findings were published in May, 2022, in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Join Matthew Landry, PhD, and lead author of this study, to learn which diet fared better, and why. (Hint: it’s not as straight-forward as you might think!) Dr. Landry will share science-based evidence in a practical way, to help you make an informed decision about what diet is best for you.

This program is appropriate for all audiences, but especially for adults concerned about diabetes.

Matthew Landry, Ph.D., is a post-doc fellow conducting research at the Stanford Center for Prevention Research, under the guidance of Christopher Gardner, Ph.D. Dr. Landry’s research focuses on identifying the optimal diet (or diets) for chronic disease prevention and addressing the challenges of designing, implementing and reporting clinical trials that test dietary patterns. He is interested in behavioral interventions that promote plant-forward and plant-based diets. Dr. Landry is an advocate for policies that address nutrition-related health inequalities, particularly in low resource settings and/or with communities experiencing health inequalities related to food insecurity and structural disparities.

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