A Newcastle University team has discovered that Type 2 diabetes can be reversed by an extreme low calorie diet alone.
Type 2 diabetes is a long-term condition caused by too much glucose, a type of sugar, in the blood.
In an early stage clinical trial of 11 people, funded by Diabetes UK, all reversed their diabetes by drastically cutting their food intake to just 600 calories a day for two months . And three months later, seven
remained free of diabetes.
It demonstrates that people who go on a very low calorie diet can remove fat
which is clogging up the pancreas allowing normal insulin secretion to be restored.
Professor Roy Taylor of Newcastle University who led the study and also works for the Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said: “To have people free of diabetes after years with the condition is remarkable - and all because of an eight week diet.
“This is a radical change in understanding Type 2 diabetes. It will change how we can explain it to people newly diagnosed with the condition. While it has long been believed that someone with Type 2 diabetes will always have the disease, and that it will steadily get worse, we have shown that we can reverse the condition.”
Source: ncl.ac.uk
Newcastle University Press Office
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