The researchers also found these mice suffered
from glucose intolerance and insulin insensitivity — signs of an increased risk of developing diabetes during adulthood.
Not exact matches
Similarly, a 2013 study
from EPA scientists found that mice exposed to ozone can develop
glucose intolerance, a precursor for diabetes.
What the researchers found was that mice fed a diet with either of the soybean oils had worse fatty liver,
glucose intolerance and obesity than the group that got all their fat
from coconut oil.
Despite not developing IR,
glucose intolerance can be induced in C57BL / 6 mice fed a high sucrose diet (50 % sucrose) relative to those fed a similar diet high in corn starch
from 10 — 55 weeks, which has been attributed to a reduced pancreatic insulin secretion (14).
Having said that, I do think that patients with the metabolic syndrome,
glucose intolerance or type II diabetes could benefit
from a lower carbohydrate, Paleolithic type diet.
People are also susceptible to type 2 diabetes if they are overweight, suffer
from hypertension, metabolic syndrome,
glucose intolerance, or abnormal lipid levels.
Whether a human can manifest with a degree of
glucose intolerance from a LCHF diet is possible (though I know of no evidence to support this).
Because of its trend to improve
glucose tolerance, cats most likely to benefit
from chromium supplementation are those with
glucose intolerance and insulin resistance
from lack of exercise, obesity, and old age; cats with underlying low insulin sensitivity; or cats that are genetically at risk of diabetes (e.g., Burmese cats)(13,14).