Crash diet can reverses type 2 diabetes in a week
source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8594293/Crash-course-diet-reverses-Type-2-diabetes-in-a-we...
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People living with mild diabetes can cure themselves - if they are willing to stick to an extreme low-calorie diet for two months, researchers say.
Eating just 600 calories a day could be all it takes for those suffering from type 2 diabetes to kick-start the insulin cells to start working properly again.
The discovery, reported by scientists at Newcastle University, overturns previous assumptions about type 2 diabetes, which was thought to be a lifelong illness.
The strict 600 calorie-a-day diet causes fat levels in the pancreas to plummet, restoring normal function, found Prof Roy Taylor of Newcastle University.
The discovery, a "radical change" in understanding of the condition, holds out the possibility that sufferers could cure themselves - if they have the willpower.
Prof Taylor asked 11 volunteers, all recently diagnosed, to go on what he admitted was an "extreme diet" of specially formulated drinks and non-starchy vegetables, for eight weeks.
After just a week, pre-breakfast ('fasting') blood sugar levels had returned to normal, suggesting a resumption of correct pancreas function.
After eight weeks, all had managed to reverse their diabetes. Three months on, seven remained free of it.
Prof Taylor explained that too much fat "clogged up" the operation of the pancreas at a cellular level, preventing normal secretion of insulin which regulates blood sugar.
When this fat was removed - by way of the diet - normal function resumed.
Gordon Parmley, 67, from Stocksfield in Northumberland, one of the volunteers, told The Daily Telegraph: "At the end of the trial, I was told my insulin levels were normal and after six years, I no longer needed my diabetes tablets.
"Still today, 18 months on, I don’t take them. It’s astonishing really that a diet – hard as it was – could change my health so drastically."
Almost a tenth of the entire NHS budget, or about £9 billion a year, is spent managing diabetes and its complications. Most of that is spent on type 2 diabetics, who outnumber type 1 diabetics by about nine to one.
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8594293/Crash-course-diet-reverses-Type-2-diab...
Eating just 600 calories a day could be all it takes for those suffering from type 2 diabetes to kick-start the insulin cells to start working properly again.
The discovery, reported by scientists at Newcastle University, overturns previous assumptions about type 2 diabetes, which was thought to be a lifelong illness.
The strict 600 calorie-a-day diet causes fat levels in the pancreas to plummet, restoring normal function, found Prof Roy Taylor of Newcastle University.
The discovery, a "radical change" in understanding of the condition, holds out the possibility that sufferers could cure themselves - if they have the willpower.
Prof Taylor asked 11 volunteers, all recently diagnosed, to go on what he admitted was an "extreme diet" of specially formulated drinks and non-starchy vegetables, for eight weeks.
After just a week, pre-breakfast ('fasting') blood sugar levels had returned to normal, suggesting a resumption of correct pancreas function.
After eight weeks, all had managed to reverse their diabetes. Three months on, seven remained free of it.
Prof Taylor explained that too much fat "clogged up" the operation of the pancreas at a cellular level, preventing normal secretion of insulin which regulates blood sugar.
When this fat was removed - by way of the diet - normal function resumed.
Gordon Parmley, 67, from Stocksfield in Northumberland, one of the volunteers, told The Daily Telegraph: "At the end of the trial, I was told my insulin levels were normal and after six years, I no longer needed my diabetes tablets.
"Still today, 18 months on, I don’t take them. It’s astonishing really that a diet – hard as it was – could change my health so drastically."
Almost a tenth of the entire NHS budget, or about £9 billion a year, is spent managing diabetes and its complications. Most of that is spent on type 2 diabetics, who outnumber type 1 diabetics by about nine to one.
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8594293/Crash-course-diet-reverses-Type-2-diab...
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I encourage everyone reading this to take the packaging from your last meal and turn it over to read the calorie details to give an idea of just how low 600 calories is - my guess is you will have consumed more than this in one meal.
3500 calories = 1 pound of body fat. 1000 calories is considered a restrictive diet. Below 1000 calories a day is considered anorexia.
This is a process that would have to be done under strict medical supervision only, otherwise we're going to have diabetics and "unconfirmed" diabetics having hypos and passing out left, right and center.
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