As you may know there are two types of diabetes. People having type 1 diabetes produce no insulin themselves at all. They need to make regular injections to provide their bodies with insulin. A low carbohydrate diet (Atkins diet) can make an impact on the amount of insulin need and make control of sugar levels in blood more complicated.
People having Type 2 diabetes produce certain amount of insulin themselves. However the amount of it is inadequate or they appear to be resistant to its action. There different evidence that weight loss among this group of patients’ may increase sensitivity to insulin and thus improve control of their blood sugars. Some suggest that the Atkins diet may also help to increase this sensitivity more that other traditional diets.
You can make a conclusion that achieving ideal body weight is likely to help people with diabetes to achieve good control.
There were conducted multiple studies of Atkins diet on people suffering diabetes. Most of them show that insulin sensitivity among the patients improved by approximately seventy percent. Another conclusion made by the specialist was that short-term use of the Atkins diet in patients with type 2 diabetes caused weight loss due mainly to reduced caloric intake, improved insulin sensitivity and glycemic control and reduced plasma cholesterol and triglyceride levels.