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    starting newcastle diet on 2nd jan

    I have seen that Roy Taylor (the lead scientist in the Newcastle diet study) has written in his updated FAQ page that he believes that the important factor is losing weight, not how rapidly it is lost, and recommends that most people take a reasonable amount of time to diet slowly rather than do...
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    Channel 4

    The programme used the terms 'remission' and 'reversal' interchangeably, without defining them at all. I think at the end the doctor said to one of the subjects, "you no longer have diabetes". Was this guy a real doctor? One wonders. The theme throughout the programme was that if you lose enough...
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    Newcastle Diet

    I have recently been diagnosed T2 and have come across the Newcstle Diet as a possible approach. What I am not sure about is whether it is important to follow the Optifast+veg programme, or if it is just as good to eat normal food with similar nutritional content. I have seen that Dr Taylor's...
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    Who saw the channel 4 programme yesterday?

    I'm new to diabetes and just finding my way around what is known about it. I did see the C4 programme last night and found it to be the usual mix of entertainment and melodrama, with a little science, but not much, thrown in. And yes it did 'conclude' that two of the guinea pigs had 'reversed'...