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it wasn't that hard to find from the main page with the links I gave you, did you really try to look? I had to do the same as you would to find it again..open the link and read it
it is obvious to you now that as intended, I under-quoted the Newcastle diet result saying 80%, when it was 100%
as I said I think they got better than the 80% gut surgery that I understated. they say they got 100%
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/magres/about/news/item/low-calorie-diets-for-type-2-diabetes-assessed-copy
This will be the largest single research project Diabetes UK has ever funded in its 79-year history. It follows a study from 2011 that found that 11 people with Type 2 diabetes who spent eight weeks on a low-calorie liquid diet all saw their insulin production return to normal and their Type 2 diabetes put into remission. These findings backed up anecdotal reports and results from bariatric surgery to raise the prospect of transforming the way Type 2 diabetes is treated.
http://www.diabetes.org.uk/DiRECT
Surgical operations, such as gastric banding and gastric bypass, are potential solutions because they lead to dramatic weight loss, which can put Type 2 diabetes into remission for up to 80% of patients. Such treatments; however, are expensive, invasive and carry a risk of surgical complications, all of which mean they can only be offered as a last resort to people who are dangerously obese.
Heck, I am not enjoying writing this.
But Jack, I'm sorry. Your links don't prove anything.
Your first link is a press release - and we all know how they blur and fudge the facts.
Your second link is to Newcastle University, not the study, or even the department which did the study.
And the third link is talking about a future, bigger study, based on the original pilot, and gives a general over-view and then advises people NOT to follow the Newcastle Diet until the results of the 5 year larger study are released, because they have not yet established the long term effects.
Here is a link to the academic department that ran the study, with additional links directly aimed at diabetics.
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/magres/research/diabetes/reversal.htm
If anyone has a link to the actual study itself, then I would love to read it, but I have just ploughed through 3 pages of a google search which contained nothing but hearsay, claims and press releases.
I am posting this because it shows just how important it is that we get our facts straight. Our links right. And that we don't rely on second and third hand blogs, press releases and superficial interpretations as sources of info.
If we are going to post 'facts' they should be backed with references, or they should be unspecific and based on personal experience.
sorry that this is a rant. But this is how rumours, urban myths and dietary f*ck*ps get into the mainstream.
Remember that nonsense about how Atkins diet of a heart attack?
No he didn't. All nonsense. But no one bothered to actually check the FACTS before they peddled the myth.