In my youth, I remember several people I knew tried a popular diet based around liquid meal replacements. One delicious, nutritious milkshake for breakfast, one for lunch – and by tea time they were ready to chew off their own arm with hunger.
Well, those plans might make a comeback. A recent study examined the effect of the NHS soup and shake diet on weight loss and its capacity to reverse type 2 diabetes. For a disease affecting 4.3 million people in the UK, the potential to reverse type 2 diabetes through diet alone could be exciting news indeed.
