Compositions of breakfast and lunch.

<p>Women received the low-energy meals (LE) and men received the high-energy (HE) meals. Energy % (E%) was calculated based on protein, fat and carbohydrate content.</p><p>Abbreviations: alc, alcohol; E%, energy percent; MUFA, mono-unsaturated fatty acid; PUFA, poly-unsaturated fatty acid; SFA, saturated fatty acid.</p

Effects of three different diets on glucose, insulin, triglycerides and glucose-dependent insulinotropic-polypeptide (GIP).

<p>Effects of a low-fat diet (open circles, regular lines), low-carbohydrate diet (open squares, dashed lines) and a Mediterranean-type diet (open triangles, dotted lines) with similar total energy intake as the low-fat and low-carbohydrate diets contained for both breakfast and lunch combined but eaten only at lunch paired with a glass of red wine (a, effects on glucose; b, effects on insulin; c, effects on serum triglyceride levels; d, effects on the incretin hormone glucose-dependent insulinotropic-polypeptide). All 19 patients with type 2 diabetes tested the three different diets for breakfast and lunch, *corresponds to Wilcoxon's signed rank paired test in comparison with the control (low-fat diet) at the same time-point (p<0.0063) for those variables that displayed differences in AUC (except GIP, see statistics section).</p

Baseline characteristics of the patients in the morning of the first individual test meal.

<p>Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; BP, blood pressure; n, number; m, mean value; SD, standard deviation.</p

CONSORT Flow Diagram.

<p>Abbreviations: LF, low-fat diet; LC, low-carbohydrate diet; M, Mediterranean diet.</p

Levels of the areas under the curves for the tested variables, standard deviation and the p-value when comparing with the low-fat (control) group at the same time period (Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test).

<p>A p-value of <0.0063 was considered statistically significant.</p><p>Abbreviations, Low-carb., low-carbohydrate diet; GIP, glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide; SD, standard deviation.</p