Crash diet to beat diabetes

A FIVE- DAY diet that involves eating a fraction of the normal calories could reverse diabetes, researchers claim.

Patients are only allowed around 770 calories a day which pushes the body into a state mimicking fasting.

They then return to a normal diet, causing cells in the pancreas to ‘ re- program’ and start producing insulin again.

University of Southern California researchers believe a near- fasting regimen over a few months ‘ reboots’ the body.

The diet has only been shown to reverse diabetes in mice but scientists plan trials on humans and early findings of an experiment on 100 adults found the diet increased their production of insulin.