July 02, 2011 journal, Hallelujah Acres announces take your diet for diabetes in a liquid diet for a while until ones pancreas and liver becomes active again. It's official, diabetes can be reversed and finally someone in the chemical realm had guts enough to say it. The abnormalities underlying type 2 diabetes can be reversed by reduction of energy intake. That's the direct, bottom line quote from a newly published study from Newcastle University, across the pond in the UK. Translation: eat less and the symptoms of diabetes will reverse themselves. How did they do it? Well, in a round-about way they mimicked The Hallelujah Diet for a couple of months-that's it! Officially, Newcastle University fed 11 diabetics a "restricted energy intake" diet consisting of fluids and non-starchy vegetables. Hmm... Sounds like lunch on The Hallelujah Diet. The funny thing is, those reporting on the study failed to miss the most important part of this dietary experiment - these people were not allowed to eat any meat, dairy, refined sugar, or processed foods (other than a mystery "diet drink" which may have contained some questionable ingredients). By not eating the sugar and fat in their regular diet, each person in the study enabled their liver and pancreas to shed excess fat, thereby regenerating their proper functions, allowing the body to begin reversing the symptoms of diabetes. Gosh, that's so simple it just might work. Let's call it The Hallelujah Diet! "Although this study involved people diagnosed with diabetes within the last four years, there is potential for people with longer-standing diabetes," researchers said. Potential? definitely! In fact we have testimonies to that effect right here. We're thrilled to see this study. And the best part? Researchers noted that a calorie-restricted diet has the same reversing effect on type 2 diabetes as stomach-altering surgery." "Reversal of type 2 diabetes: normalisation of beta cell function in association with decreased pancreas and liver triacylglycerol. Lim EL, Hollingsworth KG, Aribisala BS, Chen MJ, Mathers JC, Taylor R. Source-Magnetic Resonance Centre, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5PL, UK. Abstract AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Type 2 diabetes is regarded as inevitably progressive, with irreversible beta cell failure. The hypothesis was tested that both beta cell failure and insulin resistance can be reversed by dietary restriction of energy intake. METHODS: Eleven people with type 2 diabetes (49.5?±?2.5 years, BMI 33.6?±?1.2 kg/m(2), nine male and two female) were studied before and after 1, 4 and 8 weeks of a 2.5 MJ (600 kcal)/day diet. Basal hepatic glucose output, hepatic and peripheral insulin sensitivity and beta cell function were measured. Pancreas and liver triacylglycerol content was measured using three-point Dixon magnetic resonance imaging. An age-, sex- and weight-matched group of eight non-diabetic participants was studied. RESULTS: After 1 week of restricted energy intake, fasting plasma glucose normalised in the diabetic group (from 9.2?±?0.4 to 5.9?±?0.4 mmol/l; p?=?0.003). Insulin suppression of hepatic glucose output improved from 43?±?4% to 74?±?5% (p?=?0.003 vs baseline; controls 68?±?5%). Hepatic triacylglycerol content fell from 12.8?±?2.4% in the diabetic group to 2.9?±?0.2% by week 8 (p?=?0.003). The first-phase insulin response increased during the study period (0.19?±?0.02 to 0.46?±?0.07 nmol min(-1) m(-2); p?