031 Treating Type 2 Diabetes with a Low Calorie Diet with Tara Abi-Chahine - a podcast by Sunjay Vyas
from 2021-01-10T11:57:01
Over half a million adults were diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in the last 5 years (source: NHS). The long term impact on health is severe; stroke, heart disease, blindness, kidney failure, limb amputation and early death.
To combat this the NHS is delivering a new programme which provides a low calorie diet as treatment for those who are overweight and Type 2 diabetic. This programme has been born from two clinical trials (DiRECT and DROPLET) which showed that those individuals can reduce diabetes related medication and in some cases put their Type 2 diabetes into remission (no longer have diabetes).
In the DiRECT trial 25% of participants achieved a weight loss of 15kg or more and of these 86% put their diabetes into remission (after 12 months).
In this episode I talk with Tara Abi-Chahine who is a dietician at ICS Health & Wellbeing. She has been responsible for replicating these trials through ICS's own pilot programme which is being rolled out in a number of locations in the UK. We talk at length about her findings, what the programme consists of and how it is works practically for participants.
It is a fascinating area of research which is helping so many live happier and healthier lives. To find out more about the programme and to see the research check the links in the show notes.
Show Notes
Leave a review here
Subscribe
The Stay Whole Podcast is now available on all your favourite podcast apps!
Stay Whole links
---
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/staywhole/support
Further episodes of The Anisha and Sunjay Show
Further podcasts by Sunjay Vyas
Website of Sunjay Vyas