I'm afraid that these days I am very cynical, the days of Lord Leverhulme building model villages for his workers are long gone. I may be wrong, indeed I hope so, but I can only see commercial interests in this. If this relationship turns out beneficial for DUK then I will be very pleased -- and perhaps it will be a ray of "sunlight"
Many families of T1s take exactly the opposite view and think that DUK focuses on T2 to the detriment of T1. I've heard senior bods in DUK pretty much admit that they have over the last decade too. Let's remember, their advice for T2s only follows what Governments say.... the "known" wisdom on nutrition...!
Or London Rubber Company cosying up to Planned Parenthood charity
Well as a T2 I would be quite happy for DUK to leave us alone and focus on T1. We really don't need their daft advice making us more sick. I often hear people criticizing the US websites that don't let you leave the page without 'forcing you to part with your money' . Well years back i paid my
) then of course I would. 
But ND is working for many so it is NOT nonsense. If you look at how ND started, it began as an experiment to mimic bariatric surgery which is currently the only official way to reverse T2D, only they were looking for a non invasive way to do it without using knives and without the accompanying risks to life and limb. By mimicing the effects of this surgery they discovered that as a side effect it seemed to be more successful than they had originally expected, so they expanded the protocol to see if it could be reproduced in the GP surgery maybe under the NHS. There are several success stories attesting to it being effective, but sadly it does not seem to be as effective as surgery, and is reversible which surgery is not.
My point is that ND may work but focusses, wrongly I feel, on calories. Focussing on lowering the carbs is likely to do an even better job as 'fat doesn't make you fat' and focussing on calorie reduction will tend to make people lower fat intake rather than carbs. The ND science is weak and where did the famous '800 calorie' figure come from. Perhaps if the focus was on carb reduction there would be even less surgical intervention. Don't forget PHE mantra is to reduce fat intake so the NHS is likely anyway to steer away (wrongly) from carb reduction.
Thanks - I’ll amend my postdiabetes.co.uk is not a charity. It is a fully fledged commercial business.
The 800 cal figure comes from the need to standardise the intake, which they do by using an industry standard slimmers meal replacement plan that is readily available in supermarkets and chemists. This gives some freedom to choose in future and reduces obsolescence by multi sourcing supplies, As I said this is eventually aimd at an NHS rollout at minimum cost to the NHS.
