British study finds two-month extreme diet can cure type 2
diabetes and overturns assumptions about 'lifelong'
conditionPeople who have had obesity-related type 2 diabetes for
years have been cured, at least temporarily, by keeping to an
extreme, low-calorie, diet for two months, scientists report
today.The discovery, reported by scientists at Newcastle
University, overturns previous assumptions about type 2
diabetes, which was thought to be a lifelong illness.In the UK
about two and a half million people have been diagnosed with
diabetes, the large majority with type 2, and numbers are rising
across much of the world. The condition has to be controlled
with drugs and eventually insulin injections. It can cause
blindness and end in foot amputation, as well as shortening
life.The results of the Newcastle investigation, though the
study was small, demonstrated that full recovery was possible,
not through drugs but through diet.Eleven people with diabetes
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