The Feeding Tube Diet or the Ketogenic Enteral Nutrition diet (KE diet) has been a controversial diet that was introduced in the United States back in 2011. A doctor from North Dakota then studied the said diet and pointed out that it could be the answer to those patients suffering from Type 2 Diabetes.
For people who will be undergoing the Feeding Tube Diet, the will be using a feeding tube and an electric pump that will be inserted through their nose and into their esophagus. There will be a nutritional solution that will be fed through the tube for 24 hours. This is said to allow the patient to have 800 calories in a day. The patient is not supposed to eat anything else and can only drink water, tea or black coffee.
The process will take a certain number of days and a doctor should be there for supervision. According to the doctor who started the research, Dr. Spencer Berry, a medical director of the Medical Weight Loss Specialists in Fargo, North Dakota, the diet will safely transform patients into a dramatic weight loss in just a short period of time.
Berry explains, "The KE diet provides only proteins, fats and micronutrients and no carbohydrates or sugars, so your body goes into a state of deep nutritional ketosis and burns its own fat." He actually had 17 patients test out the feeding tube diet and these were people who already had type 2 diabetes or are in a pre-diabetic state. He pointed out that weight loss is the most effective way in order to increase the insulin sensitivity resulting to decreasing the amount of insulin that the body requires.
The patients were tested for the Feeding Tube Diet or the KE Diet for ten days and by the end of the tests, the patients lost six to 6.5 percent of their body weight. Aside from that, the patients also showed an improved blood sugar control and were able to not depend on diabetic medications. He explains, "Patients greatly reduce their need for insulin and may be able to discontinue it all together. The study began in the spring of 2014 and is ongoing. We continue to gather data."
The Feeding Tube Diet is a bit costly and was first used by bride-to-bes.
