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For 20 years, experts have considered type 2 diabetes to be a predictably progressive disease: Once you’ve been diagnosed, you may slow the progress, but you can’t stop it.
But what if that downward spiral isn’t inevitable? What if you can reverse type 2? Well new British research suggesting exactly that is making headlines.
CURE VERSUS REVERSAL
Those words might seem interchangeable, but they aren’t when it comes to type 2 diabetes. As of yet, there is no ‘cure’.
However, type 2 can be put into remission with your meal plan, physical activity and medications – but if you stop, it will return. For that reason, most experts prefer the term ‘reversal’.
“Cure means you won’t contend with this issue any longer,” says Ann Albright, director of the Division of Diabetes Translation at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US.
“If you can stop taking medications, you’ll still need to eat healthy foods in suitable portions and move more to keep type 2 diabetes in remission.”
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