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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oldvatr" data-source="post: 2445440" data-attributes="member: 196898">It is a question of semantics.  When Prof Taylor started on the research, it was funded by DUK and some NHS money.  Its aim was to see if s diet could be used to emulate the effect of bariatric surgery, which by inference is a low-calorie diet.  This meant that for large-scale rollout it had to be acceptable to the NHS nutritionists and their regulators.  Low Cal shakes as used in the Cambridge Diet plan are an accepted diet plan by these authorities, and as has been pointed out, made the study more controllable.  The Cambridge Plan was already being offered on scrip by the NHS for the treatment of obesity, so it was already approved.These bodies accept Low Cal but believe that Low Carb is hazardous to human nutrition, and so any mention of Low Carb or even carb content would kill the future prospects for mass rollout and NHS acceptance./recommendation.  It is also why the original study was time-limited to avoid being accused of being a starvation diet. since this is what the Cambridge Plan used and again had been accepted by nutritionists..So it was a political decision to ensure continued funding and least resistance. It made it marketable.It must be remembered that ND was originally only aimed at treating obesity, and the diabetes results are a bonus that we can benefit from, but we are not the prime target audience.  Bariatric surgery had been noted for leading to T2D remission in some cases, so these parameter were measured during the initial study.  But the remission seen following surgery is short lived and not permanent, and we see this uptock in the ND results too.  But the diet version is repeatable, the surgery is not so the diet offers a means of control if one accepts revolving doors and yo-yo's.</blockquote>

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