A new study suggests that patients can reverse diabetes and stay at a healthier weight in order to stay free of the condition.
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Healthier You: The NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme will initially offer 20,000 places to those at risk of developing type 2 diabetes and treat an estimated 100,000 patients each year across the whole country by 2020. When they were reassessed six months later, none of the participants had put back the weight, and none of those whose diabetes had been reversed had seen the diabetes return.
Research led by a dietitian at King’s College London has found that replacing saturated fat in the diet with polyunsaturated fat, found in foods such as vegetable oils or nuts, is linked to slower progress of type 2 diabetes in people with prediabetes whose muscles do not take up glucose properly.
After adopting a low calorie diet, the study’s participants lost, on average, 14 kilograms – just over two stone.
Included in the group were patients who had been diagnosed with long-term diabetes, which is defined as more than eight years, ranging to a total of 23 years. In fact, after six months, another patient showed the same results.
Though the volunteers lost weight they remained overweight or obese but they had lost enough weight to remove the fat out of the pancreas and allow normal insulin production, the researchers pointed out.
An earlier study, appeared in 2011, headed by Professor Taylor, showed that you can reverse your diabetes by a very low calorie diet.
If you have been diagnosed with diabetes for 10 years or even longer than that, don’t give up hope as major improvement in blood sugar control is possible!
PEOPLE at risk of developing diabetes could be sent to weight loss boot camps under a new NHS strategy to drive down the number of new Type 2 cases.
“If current obesity trends continue, one in three people will be obese by 2034 and one in ten is likely to develop type-2 diabetes”, reports ITV News.
On Tuesday, the Kearney YMCA and Buffalo County Community Partners want to remind people about the risks of diabetes during their Diabetes Alert Day.
So, even if you’ve had the diagnosis for a decade, if you lose the weight and keep it off, you will stay free of diabetes.
The authors, writing in the Diabetes Care medical journal, said: ‘Type 2 diabetes has reached epidemic proportions.
Public Health England chief executive Duncan Selbie added: “Type-2 diabetes is one of the biggest health challenges of our time”. While I didn’t feel fat, I was fat – on the inside.
“I took part in the research spending eight weeks on an 800-calorie a day diet which was really tough over Christmas and New Year but I was determined to complete it. The pay-off for me – the possible reversal of my diabetes – was more than worth the effort”. As a credentialed diabetes drillmaster (CDE) active and alive in bounded Western Australia, I apperceive the aisle to acceptable bloom can be blowzy with roadblocks.
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“It would make more sense for the Government to ensure that general practice has the appropriate resources, including thousands more Global Positioning System, so that we can run individual and community-based diabetes prevention initiatives at a practice level”, she noted.
