Type 2 diabetes: Diet and nutritional management

Type 2 diabetes remission can be achieved within 1 year at a cost below the average annual cost of diabetes management, even when including complications, shows an economic evaluation of the DiRECT/Counterweight-Plus weight management program.

Following the positive 2-year results of DiRECT, this symposium shared the first-hand experiences of a dietician, a general practitioner, and a person with diabetes who participated in the DiRECT study.

Just over a third of people who undertook a period on a very-low-calorie diet in the DiRECT trial to tackle type 2 diabetes are in remission 24 months later, the investigators have reported.

The PREVIEW project investigators have reported broadly positive results, but tempered by issues such as a high dropout rate.

Obese primary care patients referred to a total diet replacement program run by a commercial provider achieve substantial amounts of weight loss a year later, show findings from a randomized trial.

Reducing calorie intake to a quarter of normal needs for 2 days per week is as effective as smaller daily reductions in patients with type 2 diabetes, although care with either approach is needed for those with a history of hypoglycemia, shows a randomized trial.

Eating habits that do not too closely resemble the typical Western diet may be the most important protective factor in women at very high risk for type 2 diabetes, say researchers.

Researchers from the DiRECT trial have reported large positive effects on liver fat and insulin secretion among people who achieved type 2 diabetes remission in response to a very-low-calorie diet.

Intermittent fasting, following a 5:2 pattern alongside weekly diabetes supervision and reduced medication, doubles the likelihood of experiencing hypoglycemia on fasting days in obese individuals with type 2 diabetes, study data show.

A postpartum lifestyle intervention may help women with gestational diabetes to lose weight following childbirth, indicate results from the 1-year analysis of the Tianjin Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Prevention Program randomized controlled trial.

The authors of the single diabetes-related Cochrane review published in December find moderate-quality evidence for the ability of diet plus exercise to ward off type 2 diabetes in people with impaired glucose tolerance.

Nearly half of the patients helped to follow a very-low-calorie diet for at least 3 months achieved and maintained remission of type 2 diabetes over the 12 months of the DiRECT trial, the investigators report.

A meta-analysis shows that although medications and lifestyle changes can both reduce the risk for type 2 diabetes in high-risk patients, only lifestyle modifications have a sustained effect.

A partnership between primary care and commercial weight management providers could help reduce the risk for type 2 diabetes among patients with hyperglycemia, UK study findings show.

People with higher levels of linoleic acid biomarkers have a reduced risk for type 2 diabetes than those with lower levels, whereas its metabolite arachidonic acid is not significantly associated with type 2 diabetes risk, study results suggest.

Results of a randomized trial suggest that patients with type 2 diabetes experience metabolic benefits from a hypocaloric diet regardless of whether it is low in fat or low in carbohydrate content.

Two analyses of the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology cohort associate low dietary fat and high carbohydrate intake with an atherogenic lipid profile and increased mortality.

Session attendance was only moderate and self-monitoring very poor in youths with type 2 diabetes who participated in the TODAY lifestyle programme, an analysis shows.

A machine-learning analysis suggests the existence of heterogeneous treatment effects in the Look AHEAD trial, which could account for the overall neutral effect of the study intervention on cardiovascular outcomes.

Research shows that a tax imposed on sugar-sweetened drinks sold in the Californian city of Berkeley was largely passed on to consumers, and was associated with reduced sales of the taxed beverages.