According to a Diabetologia research, a strict regulation of food to 600 calories per day can cancel the Type 2 diabetes in the new patients of this disease.

The examiners of Newcastle University revealed that the food intake consisting of fewer calories decreases the level of fat in pancreas and liver. This aided the production of insulin to become regular.

The conclusions of the research printed in the journal showed that 7 out of 11 people on whom the study was conducted were cured of diabetes after three months.

The analysts are of the opinion that there is a requirement to watch if these results are permanent.

2.5 million People are affected from Type 2 diabetes in UK, which is due to the high level of glucose in blood, as an outcome of inadequate production of insulin by the pancreas.

The 11 subjects of the research were identified with diabetes in the last four years.

They reduced their food consumption severely for two months and took only fluid diet drinks and non-starchy vegetables.

Reduction in Fat

When having done diet for 1 week, the examiners had found out that the level of blood sugar before breakfast of all the people involved in the study was regular.

The MRI scan of their pancreas showed that the level of fat in the organ had reduced from 8% – an increased level – to normal 6%.

After the diet period of 3 months was over, the subjects started having normal food and were advised to eat healthy and on size of the meal. Many people were no more the victims of the disease.

Professor Roy Taylor, director of Newcastle Magnetic Resonance Centre at Newcastle University and main research writer told that he was not in favor of the diet done by the people.

“This diet was only used to test the hypothesis that if people lose substantial weight they will lose their diabetes”.

“Although this study involved people diagnosed with diabetes within the last four years, there is potential for people with longer-standing diabetes with to turn things around too.”

Awareness Matter

Dr Ee Lin Lim, also from Newcastle University’s examining team told it was known to people already that diet had an effect on Type 2 diabetes. The study revealed that the disease was not meant to be there for the whole life.

“It’s easy to take a pill, but harder to change lifestyle for good. Asking people to shift weight does actually work,” she said.

All the people involved in the study were not able to become free from diabetes.

“It all depends on how much individuals are susceptible to diabetes. We need to find out why some people are more susceptible than others then target these obese people. We can’t know the reasons for that in this study,” Dr Lim said.

Professor Edwin Gale, a diabetes expert from the University of Bristol, told the research had not shown anything new.

“We have known that starvation is a good cure for diabetes. If we introduced rationing tomorrow then we could get rid of diabetes in this country”.

“If you can catch people with diabetes in the early stages while beta cells are still functioning then you can delay its onset for years, but you will get it sooner or later because it’s in the system.”

But Keith Frayn, professor of human metabolism at the University of Oxford, told that the Newcastle study was significant.

“People who lose large amounts of weight following surgery to alter their stomach size or the plumbing of their intestines often lose their diabetes and no longer need treatment”.

“This study shows that a period of marked weight loss can produce the same reversal of Type 2 diabetes”.

“It offers great hope for many people with diabetes, although it must be said that not everyone will find it possible to stick to the extremely low-calorie diet used in this study.”

Dr Iain Frame, director of research at Diabetes UK, which provided the funds for the research, told that the diet was not an easy task.

“Such a drastic diet should only be undertaken under medical supervision. Despite being a very small trial, we look forward to future results particularly to see whether the reversal would remain in the long term.”