Low calorie diet may help reverse diabetes: Study 

A low calorie diet may help reverse diabetes, which is generally perceived as progressive and incurable, a study has confirmed.

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According to research:

• The research,confirmed a “Twin Cycle Hypothesis” which demonstrates that Type 2 diabetes is caused by excess fat actually within both liver and pancreas.
• Excess fat in the liver prompts it to respond poorly to insulin.
• As insulin controls the normal process of making glucose, the liver then produces too much glucose.
• Simultaneously, excess fat in the liver increases the normal process of export of fat to all tissues.
• In the pancreas, this excess fat causes the insulin producing cells to fail.
• However, losing less than one gram of fat from the pancreas can re-start insulin production, reversing type 2 diabetes.
• In addition, if excess food intake was sharply decreased through a very low calorie diet, all these abnormal factors would be reversed.

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Findings:

• The findings is based on evidence from recent clinical trials.
• In one trial from 2011, people diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes showed a reversal in their blood sugar levels to normal when they lost weight on a calorie-restrictive diet.
• In the study, people with diabetes who consumed a very low calorie diet had a profound decline in liver fat content.
• Resulting in normalisation of hepatic insulin sensitivity within seven days.

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• Over eight weeks, the raised pancreas fat content fell and normal first phase insulin secretion became re-established with normal plasma glucose control.
• In a follow-up study in 2016, people who had been diabetic for up to 10 years were able.
• To reverse their condition when they lost nearly 33 pounds.
• The low-calorie diet was also found to associated with no hunger and no tiredness in most people.
• But with rapidly increased well-being.