A family practice in England reports a significant 20% remission rate in patients with type 2 diabetes who follow a strict low-carbohydrate diet, saving £68,000 on the NHS practice s annual drug budget.
Today, in the third part of our life-changing series, Dr David Unwin looks at simple ways to help you tackle your sugar cravings, while chef Katie Caldesi offers more of her delicious recipes that show ‘low carb’ doesn’t mean missing out!
Looking back I feel a certain shame about the way I treated my overweight and type 2 diabetes patients before I came across low carb. For years, I found looking after them unrewarding because they didn’t seem to improve.
Now, of course, I realise that I was actually to blame for giving them poor advice!
These days thanks to what we now know about tackling weight gain I’m proud to tell you the average weight loss for 336 of my patients who’ve gone ‘low carb’ is 1 st 10 lb (11kg) over 28 months, and 14 have lost more than 4 st (25kg) each.
When my husband, the Italian chef Giancarlo Caldesi, celebrated his 69th birthday recently, my sons and I clubbed together to buy him a bike.
It might seem an unremarkable gift, but for Giancarlo his new bicycle marks an exciting milestone not only in his battle against type 2 diabetes, a chronic disease that affects nearly four million Britons, but also his long-term gout.
Six years ago, Giancarlo amazed everyone by losing three stone and putting his type 2 diabetes into remission after discovering low-carb eating, a movement that’s gathering momentum among patients and doctors worldwide thanks to its transformative effects on health and happiness.