Emotional Freedom Technique is Used for Diabetes

Tue, 06 Apr 2010
Diabetes is a medical condition whereby the body does not produce enough or effectively produce insulin , a hormone necessary to convert sugar starches and other food into the energy needed to live.

A new Swedish study suggests that switching back to normal food slowly assists in the reduction of the risk of weight regain after a very-low-energy diet .

Over three months, a group of 260 patients swapped their normal food for a very low energy diet by way of soups and milkshakes.

169 of the patients lost a great deal of weight, an average of 16 per cent of their body weight .

Then they were divided into two groups in order that they could switch back at different rates from the very-low-energy diet to energy-reduced portions of normal food.

A group completed the refeeding within a week, whilst the other took six weeks.

After ten months the patients with the six-week refeeding period had put on 4 per cent in weight from their minimum weight, whilst the patients with the one-week refeeding period had put on eight per cent, according to Lena Gripeteg, researcher at the Sahlgrenska Academy.

Very-low-energy diets have been used for several years in the health service to attain quick and safe weight loss in obese patients.

This method is tried and tested, however, there is a risk that patients will put on weight when they commence eating normal food again.

Link to this page

Copy and Paste the following HTML into your page.