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Even SLIM type 2 diabetics can reverse their condition with a game-changing soup and shake diet: Top experts say patients only need to lose 10% of their body weight
- This is the equivalent of someone with a 13th (83kg) frame losing 1st 4lbs (8kg)
- Newcastle Uni scientists presented findings at a medical conference in Sweden
- They said findings support the idea that everyone has a ‘personal fat threshold’
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Even lean people with type 2 diabetes can reverse their condition through a soup-and-shake diet, researchers revealed today.
And they only need to lose 10 percent of their body weight, experts think.
This is the equivalent of someone with a 13th (83 kg) frame losing 1st 4 lbs (8 kg).
Scientists from the University of Newcastle say the findings, presented at a medical conference in Sweden, support the idea that everyone has a “personal fat threshold.”
Type 2 diabetes affects about 4.5 million people in the UK and 37 million in the US. Although heavily driven by obesity, about 15 percent of all patients are a ‘normal weight’ (stock)
Professor Roy Taylor, a world-renowned diabetes expert and lead researcher, said: ‘When you develop type 2 diabetes, you simply have more fat in your body than you can handle, even if it seems lean.
‘This excess fat ends up in your liver and pancreas, stopping normal function 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 if all my friends are taller than me and don’t have diabetes?’ The current work answers this riddle.’
Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body doesn’t make enough insulin, or the insulin it makes doesn’t work properly, leading to high blood sugar levels.
Uncontrolled diabetes can lead to blindness and cause patients to amputate their limbs or go into a coma.
It affects about 4.5 million people in the UK and 37 million in the US.
Although heavily driven by obesity, about 15 percent of all patients are a “normal weight.”
This puts them in the group known as TOFIs – who are “thin on the outside and thick on the inside.”
TOFIs are usually not advised to lose weight, while doctors believe their condition has another cause.
But the new findings prove that counseling — which has been pushed out for years — is wrong.
Twenty participants were recruited for the study. They had an average BMI of 24.8 – defined as a “healthy” weight.
All volunteers were asked to adhere to a daily 800-calorie regimen consisting of low-calorie shakes and soups for two weeks.
A similar diet, called “game-changing,” has been shown to help overweight people with type 2 diabetes to reverse their condition. The results have even seen NHS doctors prescribing soup and shakes to help obese Britons lose weight.
The participants were then allowed to throw away the soups and shakes, but eat sensibly for up to six weeks, so that they do not pile on extra kilos.
The cycle was repeated up to three times, until they lost at least 10 percent of their body weight.
Fourteen volunteers went into remission, which allowed them to dump all their medication.
Reversal was defined as blood sugar that remained below the technical threshold for diabetes for at least six months.
Their average BMI dropped to 22.4.
Meanwhile, MRI scans showed that the fat levels in their liver and pancreas had fallen ‘significantly’.
The findings were presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Stockholm.