The Claim

In middle-aged adults with overweight or obesity, a low-carbohydrate high-fat diet over 15 weeks is associated with improved insulin sensitivity, as indicated by a reduction in HOMA-IR by 0.8 units, while a calorie-restricted low-fat diet is associated with worsened insulin resistance, as shown by an increase in HOMA-IR by 0.9 units, with these effects occurring independently of total weight loss.

Source: Greater Loss of Central Adiposity from Low-Carbohydrate versus Low-Fat Diet in Middle-Aged Adults with Overweight and Obesity

What the research says

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Quantitative
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In plain English

In middle-aged people who are overweight, eating fewer carbs and more fat for 15 weeks might help their body respond better to insulin, while cutting calories on a low-fat diet could actually make insulin work worse — and these changes happen even if both groups lose about the same amount of weight.

See the scientific wording

In middle-aged adults with overweight or obesity, a low-carbohydrate high-fat diet is associated with improved insulin sensitivity (reduced HOMA-IR by 0.8 units) over 15 weeks, whereas a calorie-restricted low-fat diet is associated with worsened insulin resistance (increased HOMA-IR by 0.9 units), suggesting divergent metabolic effects independent of total weight loss.

What the research says

1 study
  1. Study: Greater Loss of Central Adiposity from Low-Carbohydrate versus Low-Fat Diet in Middle-Aged Adults with Overweight and Obesity

    The study looked at the same diets in similar people, but it didn’t measure the specific insulin changes the claim talks about, so we can’t say if the claim is backed by this study.

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