Fourteen severely obese people with type 2 diabetes spent a week on a very low calorie diet, and their glucose disposal rose from 59 to 75.5 ml/min/m2 alongside lower fasting glucose and triglycerides. The authors credit better beta cell function, not insulin sensitivity.
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Calorie restriction helps severely obese diabetics
In a study from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, seven days of a 400-calorie diet lowered fasting glucose and triglycerides in severely obese type 2 diabetes patients and improved both phases of insulin secretion, with 3.22% weight loss and no gain in insulin sensitivity.
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At North Carolina State, D.K. Carver's team fed laying hens either freely or at 45% of normal calories and saw a near five-fold drop in epithelial ovarian cancer. The restricted hens halved their mortality and ovulated 64% less often.
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