Food, movement, no medication: over half of younger diabetes patients reached remission in one trial

A randomised trial across centres in England and Canada — including McGill University in Montreal and the University of Alberta, co-led by McGill's Kaberi Dasgupta — tested an 800–900-calorie-a-day diet combined with structured exercise in 96 adults aged 18 to 45 with early-onset type 2 diabetes. After 24 weeks, 54% of the diet-and-exercise group were in remission — blood sugar below the diabetes threshold without medication for at least three months — versus 4% with standard care, and participants preserved muscle mass while losing an average of 7.5 kg more than the comparison group. The work was published in The Lancet Regional Health Americas.