Re:Type 2 diabetes can be reversed with a low-calorie diet
by hawkice on Friday February 16, 2018 @06:33PM
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Fair, but I think there's something to the opposite tone. A lot of people know that if you're healthy, you can generally avoid type 2 diabetes. Saying it basically 1:1's with weight issues is... important. Prevention is important, but there's this idea weight loss is impossible, or keeping weight off is impossible, and boy howdy that isn't true.
Re:Type 2 diabetes can be reversed with a low-calorie diet
by vevoo on Friday February 16, 2018 @09:15PM
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>could we say that a high calorie diet can maintain or accelerate diabetes.
Yes we can say that. But we can say the same about an isocaloric diet and a negative balance diet of 5 or 10% deficit. It is better said as the paper did.
> Diabetes remission occurred in 46% of the intervention group compared to 4% of the usual care group. It only occurred in people who had lost weight.
Unless the people with type 2 diabetes were fit and going underweight for the experiment, instead of implying overweightness is normal, could we say that a high calorie diet can maintain or accelerate diabetes?
This rephrasing suggests prevention.