Promising Study/Regimen Ends Diabetes in Four Months (diet, insulin)

[LittleDolphin]

Those with Type 2 diabetes will be interested in the results of this study:

Reduced-calorie diet could beat diabetes in four months - Yahoo! (http://gma.yahoo.com/reduced-calorie-diet-could-beat-diabetes-four-months-164141607.html - broken link)

[timneh5]

"... Subjects consumed a diet consisting of just 500 calories a day for four months. "

You would have to put me in a coma to be able to handle 500 calories a day!! How can that be safe?

[LittleDolphin]

The article doesn't say, but I would think the people in the study were also given vitamin/mineral supplements so they had adequate nutrients to avoid illness.

[tickyul]

Originally Posted by LittleDolphin

The article doesn't say, but I would think the people in the study were also given vitamin/mineral supplements so they had adequate nutrients to avoid illness.

Wow, pills or not..............put me on that low of a calorie diet.........well, I would soon be hunting humans.....unrealistic at best.

[jambo101]

500 calories a day? how would you have the energy to do anything.

[stepka]

I'm wondering what the results would be like if they put that diet against an Atkins type regimen? I've heard that some research has been done on that, and I should think that it would be a better diet for the long run. I read an article a while ago about how things were for juvenile diabetics before insulin came on the market and it was possible to keep people alive for years with J. diabetes as long as they ate almost no carbs--something like the induction phase of Atkins.