Original Research ArticleInternational Journal of Advances in Medicine

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Meal plan prescription, biochemical parameters, and practicality in poorly controlled type-II diabetes mellitus patients

Int J Adv Med. 2020;7(9):1331-1338.DOI10.18203/2349-3933.ijam20203595

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Abstract

Background Diabetes health complications seen in everyday life are strongly related to consumption of high carbohydrate and fat foods and the overweight or the obesity.

Methods To shift this equilibrium and to decrease the probability of health problems the opposite was advised; a low carbohydrate and a low-fat daily food plan.

Results The food plan encountered a few environmental and individual hindering factors but the patients who finished the 12-months plan duration achieved significant improvements.

Conclusions The prescribed meal plan was very useful to the poorly controlled type-2 diabetes mellitus patient however it needs further investigation to make it more practical with a wider applicability.

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Affiliations

  1. Department of Family Medicine, Ministry of Health, Jordan
  2. Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma'an, Jordan

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