Erschienen in:
01.10.2008 | Letter
Mediterranean diet in type 2 diabetes. Reply to Basterra-Gortari FJ, Martínez-González MA [letter]
verfasst von:
A. Fraser, D. A. Lawlor, D. Fraser
Erschienen in:
Diabetologia
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Ausgabe 10/2008
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To the Editor: We thank Drs Basterra-Gortari and Martínez-González for their insightful comments [
1] on our recent finding that a modified Mediterranean diet was associated with the greatest benefit in terms of reducing alanine aminotransferase levels among obese patients with diabetes [
2]. As they point out, we provided information regarding participants’ dietary intake by nutrients and not by food groups. Unfortunately, data of consumption by food groups is not currently available for analysis. However, participants randomised to the modified Mediterranean diet were advised to replace butter with extra virgin olive oil and olive-based margarine and to include fish, walnuts, peanuts, almonds and avocado in their diet. All three diets included eggs, chicken and turkey breast. Thus, participants were indeed advised to adopt a ‘modified functional definition’ of the traditional Mediterranean diet; hence, the diet was named a modified Mediterranean diet (MMD). …
