{"id":872265,"date":"2026-10-06T01:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872265\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:56:09","slug":"diet-exercise-can-reverse-early-type-2-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872265\/","title":{"rendered":"Diet, Exercise Can Reverse Early Type 2 Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve developed Type 2 diabetes before age 45, it\u2019s possible to push the disease into remission with weight-loss dieting and a fitness program that includes aerobic and muscle-building resistance exercise, a new study confirms.<\/p>\n

“In early-onset Type 2 diabetes, combining structured aerobic and resistance exercise with a low-calorie diet produces high remission rates, induces fat loss while preserving muscle mass, improves muscle quality and function, enhances cardiovascular health, and leads to meaningful improvements in patient-reported outcomes,” concluded a team co-led by Dr. Kaberi Dasgupta.<\/p>\n

She directs general internal medicine at McGill University in Montreal.<\/p>\n

Her team presented its findings Wednesday in Milan at a meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. The findings were simultaneously published in The Lancet Regional Health Americas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Researchers said diagnoses of Type 2 diabetes in the young are a troubling trend. Often tied to obesity, early onset of Type 2 diabetes in people under 45 reduces a person’s overall life expectancy more than later-onset disease, Dasgupta’s team noted.<\/p>\n

But reversing that diagnosis is possible, the new trial showed.<\/p>\n

At three centers in Canada and the United Kingdom, Dasgupta (and colleagues at the University of Leicester) enrolled 96 adults under the age of 45 who had obesity and early-onset Type 2 diabetes. None had yet started insulin therapy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

About half of participants were randomized to “usual care” for their Type 2 diabetes, while the other half received a program involving a weight-loss diet and weekly exercise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The diet contained 800 to 900 calories per day made up of 30% protein, 50% carbohydrate and 20% fat.<\/p>\n

While on the diet, participants got their calories through total meal replacement (Optifast in the U.K. and ProtiDiet in Canada) for the first two weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During weeks three to 12, they got the meal replacements plus one food-based meal per day \u00a0(60 to 90 grams of protein, one portion of fruit, two portions of non-starchy vegetables). Participants followed a “weight-maintenance” diet during weeks 13 to 24.<\/p>\n

The exercise portion of the intervention involved twice-a-week supervised exercise combining both aerobic and resistance regimens for 12 weeks, followed by independent exercise during weeks 13 to 24.<\/p>\n

At the 24-week mark, 27 of the 50 people (54%) enrolled in the intervention arm of the trial saw their type 2 diabetes go into complete remission, Dasgupta’s team reported. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Only 2 of the 46 people (4%) in the no-intervention arm went into remission.<\/p>\n

Much of this difference may have been due to weight loss: People in the intervention arm lost 18.5 pounds on average, compared to 2.6 pounds for those in the control arm, the study found.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When looking at fat mass alone, folks who got the diet\/exercise intervention lost an average of 14.5 pounds more fat than those in the non-intervention arm.<\/p>\n

The finding reinforces “the potential of structured lifestyle interventions to support clinically meaningful remission” in people with early-onset Type 2 diabetes, Dasgupta’s team said.<\/p>\n

Incorporating weight training exercise may be key, they added.<\/p>\n

“Preserving muscle during remission-oriented weight loss may have important implications for long-term metabolic health, physical function and disease trajectory,” the researchers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you’ve developed Type 2 diabetes before age 45, it\u2019s possible to push the disease into remission with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[367569,985,8112,367568,674,337,97,258873,367567],"class_list":["post-872265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-age-45","tag-diabetes","tag-diet","tag-early-onset","tag-exercise","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-reverse","tag-type-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}