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Health See other Health Articles Title: Study suggests low calorie cure for diabetes Study suggests low calorie cure for diabetes By Michael Edwards Updated 3 hours 43 minutes ago Hope for a cure? ...About 850,000 people have been formally diagnosed with diabetes in Australia. (AAP Image: James Morgan) AUDIO: Diabetes 'cure' questioned (PM) Scientists from a British university say an extreme, low calorie diet could hold the key to curing type 2 diabetes. The scientists from Britain's Newcastle University conducted a two-month study which they say overturns previous assumptions that diabetes is a lifelong illness. Type 2 diabetes, or adult-onset diabetes, is a disease caused by too much glucose in the blood. It can cause blindness and even cause sufferers to need amputations. In many cases those afflicted die younger. The UK study involved 11 type 2 sufferers cutting their food intake to just 600 calories a day for two months. Three months after the end of that period, seven of the 11 subjects were free of diabetes. The researchers say it proves the disease can be beaten. But Australian diabetes experts are sceptical the disease can be cured so simply. Australian Diabetes Council research head Dr Alan Barclay says the study just shows weight loss can reduce the symptoms of diabetes, something already well known. "[The results are] due to the rapid weight loss and then the sustained weight loss that they've achieved through going back onto a healthy diet," he said. "If the people put the weight back on again, their diabetes will come back again, it's as simple as that. "It's a remission of the symptoms, which is great and certainly should be encouraged, but because diabetes is a metabolic disease, it's not something you catch, it will come back again if you go back to your old lifestyle habits." But Dr Barclay says diet is the most crucial factor in controlling type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Australia chief executive Lewis Kaplan says weight has a big role in both the development and management of the disease. "People who over-eat, essentially, and are under-active physically, who put on weight - they're at much greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes than their leaner counterparts," he said. "And when they develop the type 2 diabetes they need to have a carefully managed diet that will stop their blood glucose levels from going too high." Mr Kaplan says about 850,000 people have been formally diagnosed with diabetes in Australia and a further 750,000 have the disease but do not yet know it. Diabetes sufferers are encouraged to seek medical advice before the undertaking any type of diet. Tags: health, diseases-and-disorders, diabetes, medical-research, australia, united-kingdom, england First posted 3 hours 59 minutes ago
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#1. To: gengis gandhi (#0)
600 calories a day for two months? That would kill me.
God is always good!
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