Posted on 04/01/2022 5:31:12 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
A new shows remission from type 2 diabetes is possible for people with lower BMIs.
Results show a staggering 70% of participants with lower bodyweights went into type 2 remission through diet-induced weight loss, despite not living with obesity or overweight.
The Counterpoint study first showed that shedding fat from inside the pancreas and liver was key to remission from type 2 in people living with obesity or overweight.
To find out if losing excess fat could also help people with BMIs in the healthy range go into remission from type 2 diabetes, Professor Roy Taylor put people with the condition and a BMI at or just above the healthy range (BMI below 27) on a similar low-calorie diet program.
Participants were supported by a medical team to stop all glucose lowering tablets and follow a strict low-calorie diet (800 kcal per day), consisting of formula meal replacements and non-starchy vegetables for 2–4 weeks, followed by a 4–6 week weight loss maintenance period which involved the gradual reintroduction of normal foods. This cycle of weight loss and maintenance was repeated up to three times, until participants lost between 10 and 15% of their bodyweight.
After each cycle, the research team measured the amount of fat in the participants' pancreas and liver and looked to see who how remission was produced.
Following on from last year's promising preliminary results, the study's complete data confirms for the first time that people with type 2 diabetes and lower BMIs can be supported to put their type 2 into remission through a structured low-calorie diet program, and that the key to this is losing harmful fat from the liver and pancreas.
Participants reported feeling satisfied with their weight loss and health improvements and didn't report difficulties with keeping the weight off that they'd lost.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
The book “The Case Against Sugar” points out the rise of obesity and diabetes followed the introduction of low cost sugar from the Middle East
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Look at the increase in diabetes and cancer after people started using seed oils.
Some seed oils are more than 50% omega 6 fats.
Most foods are less than 5% omega 6 fats.
Increasing stored iron harms the pancreas. Increasing it more causes diabetes.
It’s as simple as that? Wow! Cool.
So, it doesn’t matter what I eat, just the number of calories? Sounds like a real miracle diet.
that’s it, but what you eat can make it easier or harder to achieve it.
Carbs, calories, and exercise all matter.
Consume 1800 calories of Coke and bananas and let us know how that works out for you. /s
“...the gradual reintroduction of normal foods...”
This was terrible advice. “Normal” foods are the cause of diabetes. I call them slow poison. They taste good but they aren’t good for you.
Looks like they want to dance around the issue.
Unless your BSL (Blood Sugar Level) drops into the hypoglycemic territory: 40-50-60 range. Then it gets serious.
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