Not from what I've read from Dr Taylor; "The essential point is that substantial weight loss must be achieved. The time course of weight loss is much less important." - http://www.ncl.ac.uk/media/wwwnclacuk/newcastlemagneticresonancecentre/files/reversing-type2-diabetes-leaflet.pdf
And again...
Interesting debates here. I'm going to give a moderate calorie diet a try, particularly as I;m not type 2 diabetic, I just have pre-diabetes. Based on what the researchers say as long as the same necessary amount of fat loss is reached it should work. if it still doesn't I'll try the original...
Cheers for the extra info, as I thought it will be individual specific, I think I'll have to wait and see how it goes. I do agree as others have said that it seems like a more manageable diet than low-carb.
Hello all. So last Friday I was diagnosed with prediabetes - 6.1mmol/L fasting plasma glucose. I've been reading a lot about prediabetes/diabetes for a while (see below if you're interested) and I'm particularly interested in the Newcastle diet, or rather fat loss to reverse diabetes. It seems...
Intriguing. Definitely shows that moderation can work. I plan to lose about 14lbs myself, hopng for about 1lb per week fat loss.
True, although theoretically it seems that any length of time to result in substantial fat loss would still do the job. I am somewhat lucky, I've only been...
Hi there,
After reading a fair bit about the newcastle diet, I wanted to know if people have had success with reversing diabetes via a more moderate calorific deficit rather than the more extreme deficits presented in the studies.
I know Roy Taylor himself seems to argue that moderate calorie...