I reversed my type 2 diabetes through diet and lifestyle changes

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I reversed my type 2 diabetes through diet and lifestyle changes
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'A jacket potato was spiking my blood sugar levels almost as high as a Krispy Kreme donught! I cut down carbs and started only eating twice a day as opposed to eating three meals and snacking in between,' says Debra Scott 🖋️ KasiaLDelgado

had an average weight loss of about 9kg at the five-year point. The findings could help improve life expectancy and avoid potentially deadly complications for people across the UK. And hope is much needed: since 1996, the number of people diagnosed with the condition in the UK has risen from 1.4 million to 3.

Dr Lucy Chambers from Diabetes UK, who has been part of the study which informed the NHS ‘soups and shakes’ scheme For Liz Bennetts, 62, being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2007 felt like a personal failure. “I used to drink pints of lager and drink shots,” she tells i from Penzance, Cornwall. “I ate fried food, and when my mum used to do the cooking, she’d use dripping.” After the nurse at her local GP advised that she lose weight to see if that could help the diabetes, she joined a Slimming World group. “It was the best thing I ever did,” she says, now weighing 69kg instead of 101kg .

Dave Ormston, a 59-year-old working at a software robotics company, in Dudley, West Midlands, was diagnosed with type 2 last year after having a stroke in 2019. “My GP and nurse explained that I might be able to reverse my diabetes with a profound lifestyle change,” he says. “I was prescribed Metformin, but I also became pescatarian, avoided alcohol, refined carbs and sugar. I’ve lost 20 pounds and I feel healthy.

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