I read an article today in the Daily Mail entitled 'Dieting for two weeks stopped my diabetes'.
What was all this about - if I could diet for two weeks and lose a stone and lose my diabetes, this would be a miracle. Not only this but the guy in the story was also able to come off his blood pressure pills which was something I wanted to do as well.
The story was about a guy who had read about a controlled study carried out at Newcastle University, funded by Diabetes UK that researched into the observation that patients that underwent gastric band surgery often reversed their type 2 diabetes as a side-effect of rapid weight loss.
The study with 11 volunteers carried out by Prof Taylor simulated gastric band surgery by putting the people on meal replacement regime that only provided 800 calories per day for eight weeks. This caused rapid and substantial weight loss and when the body started burning its own fat reserves (known as Ketosis) from the liver and pancreas (fat stored in the wrong places is used up first), apparently the pancreas started working properly again and producing insulin hence the reversal of diabetes.
The meal replacement product used in the study was called Optifast which is not readily available in the UK. In the US, Canada and Australia it is only available as part of clinic based and medically overseen programme.
Because Optifast was not available in the UK, the guy in the Daily Mail article decided to do his own DIY programme with an own label meal replacement product bought at relatively low cost from ASDA.
This was beginning to sound interesting - here is a link to the Daily Mail article that kicked off my interest.
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