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Nutrition Reviews Has carbohydrate-restriction been forgotten as a treatment for diabetes mellitus? A perspective
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Nutrition & Metabolism 2008, 5:10doi:10.1186/1743-7075-5-10
The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/5/1/10
| Received: | 29 March 2008 |
| Accepted: | 9 April 2008 |
| Published: | 9 April 2008 |
© 2008 Westman and Vernon; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
ECW has received unrestricted research grant funding from the Robert C. Atkins Foundation. MCV has written a book about the treatment of diabetes with carbohydrate-restriction.
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