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According to this News item:
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2020/Feb/Two-million-people-at-risk-of-type-2-diabetes.html
the number of people at risk of type 2 diabetes in the UK is at its highest ever - things are getting worse. (I heard that if current trends continue then T2D alone will bankrupt the NHS in 25 years. Already £3M per day drug bill.)
In other words, whatever the reason, the current approach just isn't working.
NHS national clinical director for obesity and diabetes, Professor Jonathan Valabhji said:
Apparently low calorie diets are the correct way to treat the problem, according to the NHS expert, except they have such a notoriously poor success rate (as explained in a 1919 US medical book entitled A Biometric Study of Basal Metabolism in Man, so he's going by theory a mere 100 years out-of-date.)
Rather than consider why the current approach is failing, the NHS will be "doubling capacity of our world leading NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme" which continues the ineffective approach of calorie restriction and assumes patients are at fault for it being ineffective.
I'm so glad I found this forum!
Edit to add: This paper from 1959 says "This study grew out of an attempt to resolve a paradox—the contrast between my difficulties in treating obesity and the widespread assumption that such treatment was easy and effective." Sound familiar?
Doing their own study of 100 patients, who were referred for treatment for obesity, they found only 12% lost 20 pounds and just one person (1%) lost 40 pounds. They were not surprised by such a low success rate. The paper also reports on their own long-term effectiveness: "Furthermore, two years later, only two percent of patients had maintained their 20-pound weight loss."
I have heard of other much more recent but otherwise similar studies which had an even lower long-term success rate! It seems like we haven't made much progress on a 98% failure rate in 60 years...
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2020/Feb/Two-million-people-at-risk-of-type-2-diabetes.html
the number of people at risk of type 2 diabetes in the UK is at its highest ever - things are getting worse. (I heard that if current trends continue then T2D alone will bankrupt the NHS in 25 years. Already £3M per day drug bill.)
In other words, whatever the reason, the current approach just isn't working.
NHS national clinical director for obesity and diabetes, Professor Jonathan Valabhji said:
“The NHS Long Term Plan sets out the part we are playing to tackle the situation including piloting low calorie diets to achieve type 2 diabetes remission, and doubling capacity of our world leading NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme that can prevent people developing in the first place.”
Apparently low calorie diets are the correct way to treat the problem, according to the NHS expert, except they have such a notoriously poor success rate (as explained in a 1919 US medical book entitled A Biometric Study of Basal Metabolism in Man, so he's going by theory a mere 100 years out-of-date.)
Rather than consider why the current approach is failing, the NHS will be "doubling capacity of our world leading NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme" which continues the ineffective approach of calorie restriction and assumes patients are at fault for it being ineffective.
I'm so glad I found this forum!
Edit to add: This paper from 1959 says "This study grew out of an attempt to resolve a paradox—the contrast between my difficulties in treating obesity and the widespread assumption that such treatment was easy and effective." Sound familiar?
Doing their own study of 100 patients, who were referred for treatment for obesity, they found only 12% lost 20 pounds and just one person (1%) lost 40 pounds. They were not surprised by such a low success rate. The paper also reports on their own long-term effectiveness: "Furthermore, two years later, only two percent of patients had maintained their 20-pound weight loss."
I have heard of other much more recent but otherwise similar studies which had an even lower long-term success rate! It seems like we haven't made much progress on a 98% failure rate in 60 years...
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