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Shahrad Taher, an endocrinologist, put 70 of his patients suffering from type 2 diabetes on a strict diet and exercise program for one year. The result? As many as 61% managed to overcome their diabetes.
Taheri, who comes from Weill Cornall Medicine, conducted his study in 2020 in Qatar, a country where obesity and diabetes rates are much higher than in the US. However, he said, the research results were published in medical journals Lancet this can be applied all over the world.
“The current view regarding type 2 diabetes is that this disease cannot be cured. “The patient will suffer the rest of his life,” he said. The results of his study, in which the average participant lost 26 pounds (about 13 kg), confirmed Taheri’s view that “obesity is the main cause of diabetes.”
Apart from that, there is other good news for people with type 2 diabetes. The introduction of a new powerful weight loss drug that can help millions of people avoid the damage caused by their disease. Unfortunately, these new drugs are still very expensive and if patients stop taking them, they may experience weight gain again; or many cannot tolerate the side effects of the drug; and diet and exercise will still be beneficial even for people taking the drug, doctors say.
The new drug “actually reduces insulin resistance and produces weight loss, which is exactly what you’re trying to do with lifestyle interventions,” Jordan Perlman, an endocrinologist at Johns Hopkins, was quoted as saying. Barron’s, Saturday (7/10). “The idea is that you use this drug to control your appetite while you are making lifestyle changes.”
There are currently an estimated 37 million diabetes sufferers in America. About 5% are type-1 diabetics — a type of diabetes in which their pancreas stops or largely stops producing insulin. Diet and exercise are also important for them, but insulin use must continue throughout their lives.
This is different from the majority of people with type 2 diabetes who suffer from it more. The pancreas of people with type 2 diabetes still produces insulin – an important hormone that allows sugar to enter the body’s cells to be used as energy. However, the body cells of people with type 2 diabetes become insulin resistant, which causes their blood sugar levels to not decrease normally after eating.
“Many things can contribute to insulin resistance, including poor diet, lack of physical activity, obesity, especially the accumulation of fat around the stomach,” said endocrinologist Omar El Kawkgi of the Mayo Clinic. If left without treatment, type 2 diabetes damages the cardiovascular system and body organs as does type 1 diabetes.
The good news for type 2 diabetes is that, especially if it occurs recently, this disease does not have to last a lifetime. Diet and exercise together work better to treat type 2 diabetes than either one alone.
“Diet helps control blood sugar by controlling carbohydrate intake, while exercise improves the body’s sensitivity to insulin to help reverse insulin resistance,” said El Kawkgi.
The positive impact of exercise lasts for three days, says Sheri Colberg, an exercise physiologist who is also an expert on exercise and diabetes. “I always say you are as good as your last workout or aerobic/cardio workout,” explains Colberg. He himself has type-1 diabetes and exercises regularly to help control it.
Weight-bearing exercise also helps. “That’s because it allows you to gain and maintain muscle mass, which is where the body stores most of its carbohydrates,” says Colberg.
Even if you manage to overcome type-2 diabetes, you cannot relax. You must continue to exercise and eat right, or your type-2 diabetes will return as badly as before.
“Whenever people successfully reverse their diabetes with diet and exercise, so “We definitely praise them,” said Perlman. “But we will tell them that this will be a constant battle.” AI
2023-10-08 03:26:05
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