Extreme low cal & diabetes cure

CeejayGee
CeejayGee Posts: 299 Member
edited September 29 in Food and Nutrition
I don't have diabetes, but I found this article interesting:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jun/24/low-calorie-diet-hope-cure-diabetes

Essentially, the study found that 8 weeks on a severely restricted calorie diet (600 or below) CURED type 2 diabetes.

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  • HollyLLillis
    HollyLLillis Posts: 113 Member
    That is totally amazing! Goes to show that eating right only makes you healthier! Thanks for sharing that! :drinker:
  • Calidaho
    Calidaho Posts: 110 Member
    I wonder if it has more to do with a dramatic weight loss than the drastic calorie reduction? It seems that people who lose a bunch of weight, through not so extreme diet and exercise over a longer period of time, have been able to go off diabetes medications. I think I would have to lay around for 8 weeks to survive! So. Hungry.

    Something the chew on!
  • CeejayGee
    CeejayGee Posts: 299 Member
    Yeah, I dont know the answers to those questions. Weight loss CAN cure diabetes 2, for sure. My mother-in-law changed her lifestyle and lost 20 pounds and her diabetes is so much better and her doctor said she is on the way to reversing it. And, I've heard many others reverse theirs. So, maybe it's more about the weight loss and not the rapidness of it. Who knows.

    I can't imagine 8 weeks on 600 calories, though I think I could do a few days. I'm pretty good at picking foods that satiate me :)
  • CeejayGee
    CeejayGee Posts: 299 Member
    Yeah, I dont know the answers to those questions. Weight loss CAN cure diabetes 2, for sure. My mother-in-law changed her lifestyle and lost 20 pounds and her diabetes is so much better and her doctor said she is on the way to reversing it. And, I've heard many others reverse theirs. So, maybe it's more about the weight loss and not the rapidness of it. Who knows.

    I can't imagine 8 weeks on 600 calories, though I think I could do a few days. I'm pretty good at picking foods that satiate me :)
  • Larius
    Larius Posts: 507 Member
    The scientists conclude that a reduction of fat around the liver and pancreas reverses type 2 diabetes. They do not claim that sudden starvation-type dieting improved anything, although they used in the study. They probably wanted faster results which makes for a shorter, less expensive study.

    It should also be noted that this study has a small sample size, and they excluded anyone with very advanced diabetes or a family history of diabetes.

    For my fellow geeks, full text! http://www.springerlink.com/content/68rmr50h7j024525/fulltext.pdf
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