Even type 2 diabetics SLIM can reverse their condition
Researchers reveal today that even slim people with type 2 diabetes can reverse their condition through a soup-and-diet diet.
Experts believe they only need to lose 10% of their body weight.
This figure is equivalent to the person with frame 13 (83kg) losing the first 4lbs (8kg).
Newcastle University scientists say the finding, presented at a medical conference in Sweden, supports the view that everyone has a ‘personal fat threshold’.
Type 2 diabetes affects around 4.5 million people in the UK and 37 million in the US. Despite being burdened by obesity, around 15% of all sufferers are ‘normal weight’ (stock)
Professor Roy Taylor, a world-renowned diabetes expert and lead researcher, said: ‘If you develop type 2 diabetes, you simply have a lot of fat inside your body. than you can handle, even if it seems slim.
‘This excess fat spills over into your liver and pancreas stopping it from working properly and causing type 2 diabetes.
‘You only need half a gram of extra fat in the pancreas to prevent normal insulin production.
‘I’m often asked, “Why do I have type 2 diabetes when all my friends are older than me and don’t have diabetes?” Current work answers this conundrum. ‘
Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body doesn’t make enough insulin or if the insulin it makes doesn’t work properly – resulting in high blood sugar.
Uncontrolled diabetes can lead to blindness and lead to amputation or coma.
It affects around 4.5 million people in the UK and 37 million in the US.
Although being overweight is burdensome, about 15% of all people with the disease are ‘normal weight’.
This puts them in the group known as TOFIs – people who are ‘thin on the outside and fat on the inside’.
TOFI is often not advised to lose weight, with doctors believing their condition has other causes.
But the new findings prove that the guideline – which has been pushed out for years – is wrong.
20 participants were recruited for the study. They had an average BMI of 24.8 – defined as a ‘healthy’ weight.
All volunteers were asked to follow a two-week 800-calorie daily regimen, which included low-calorie shakes and soups.
A similar diet, labeled a ‘game changer’, has been shown to help overweight type 2 diabetics reverse their condition. The results have even seen NHS doctors prescribing soups and shakes to help obese Britons lose weight.
Participants were then allowed to skip soups and shakes but eat sensibly for up to six weeks, so they didn’t gain weight back.
This cycle was repeated up to three times, until they lost at least 10% of their body weight.
Fourteen volunteers were in remission, allowing them to quit all their medication.
Reversal is defined as blood sugar levels that are below the technical threshold for diabetes for at least six months.
Their average BMI dropped to 22.4.
Meanwhile, an MRI scan showed that their levels of fat inside their liver and pancreas had dropped ‘significantly’.
The findings were presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Stockholm.
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