(Source: The Times of India, 22 April 2011)
Researchers have for the first time determined that the ketogenic diet, a specialized high-fat, low carbohydrate diet, may reverse impaired kidney function in people with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.
They also identified a previously unreported panel of genes associated with diabetes-related kidney failure, whose expression was reversed by the diet. Charles Mobbs, professor of Neuroscience and Geriatrics and Palliative Care Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and his research team evaluated mice that were genetically predisposed to have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. Read more
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