Prediabetes: Can You Prevent Diabetes with Diet?

2. Ketogenic Diet Cautions

Some studies looked at whether a high- or low-carbohydrate diet is better for blood sugar control, focusing specifically on the popular ketogenic diet. Results show that people following a low-carb ketogenic diet lost weight compared to those on a baseline diet, but there was no significant difference in body fat.

Lab tests show that this weight loss was most likely due to loss of water weight or skeletal muscle. Further study results show reduced-fat diets resulted in more significant fat loss than ketogenic ones, suggesting that eating more carbohydrates than a keto diet calls for may be beneficial to helping prevent diabetes.