Type 2 diabetes could be reversed in just four months by simply following a low-calorie diet, a study has revealed.
According to the research, people who reduced their calorific intake in their daily diet experienced a far greater improvement in the condition – and their health in general – than any medication offered.
This means that life-saving insulin would no longer be needed to combat the disorder, cardiac function would improve and dangerous fats building up around patients’ hearts would be significantly reduced.
As obesity levels soar, type 2 diabetes is fast emerging as one of the biggest priorities for the health profession.
Dr Sebastiaan Hammer, the study’s lead author, told The Express: ‘It is striking to see how a relatively simple intervention of a very low-calorie diet effectively cures Type 2 diabetes.
‘Lifestyle interventions may have more powerful beneficial cardiac effects than medication in these patients.’
The research has been hailed as a breakthrough which could revolutionise the treatment of what was thought to be an incurable lifelong condition.
Dr Hammer, from the Department of Radiology at Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands, added that the results showed significant improvements in patients after just 16 weeks of following a low-calorie diet.
(Source: Daily Mail UK)
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or, perhaps most cases of Type 2 diabetes aren’t a disease at all, but are merely symptoms of being overweight. If you get fat your body stops working as it should, and blood sugar rises, causes symptoms that mimic those called by other types of diabetes.
It should be noted that a common version of “Type 2” diabetes occurs among many pregnant women, and is easily cured – by having a baby.
However the medical industry doesn’t make money off of telling people to eat less and exercise more – so this “cure” will really annoy the people who make money off of diabetes drugs.
Type 2 diabetes is very much a disease, and it is difficult to say from reading this article anything about this study. Note it also says “very low-calorie” diet, which could easily be something akin to 800-1200 calories a day, something most Americans wouldn’t tolerate.
Furthermore, if by “medical industry” you are referring to pharmaceutical companies, then you are probably correct. But as a physician, I would love nothing more than to be able to tell my patients that they can cure their disease by eating less and exercising–I do it all the time– and have them LISTEN TO THE ADVICE.