Very low energy diets have been used for many years in the health service to achieve safe and rapid weight loss in obese patients. Although this method of treatment is well studied, there is a risk that patients gain weight when they start eating normal food.‘Based on this study, we can not explain why there is a difference between the sexes,’ says Gripeteg. ‘It may well be that different health problems among women and men, which may explain why there is a significant improvement in the ability to work as men, but no effect in women after surgical treatment of obesity.’
‘After ten months, patients with the refeeding period of six weeks he had gained 4 % by weight, minimum weight, while patients with the refeeding period of a week had gained eight %,’ said Lena Gripeteg, researcher at the Sahlgrenska Academy.
Patients with sickle cell disease have a defective form of adult hemoglobin that causes their red blood cells to become deformed and sickle. As a result, cells are able to effectively carry oxygen to body tissues and often get together and jam vessels, causing blood flow obstruction and episodes of severe pain. A team of researchers has studied in Boston HarvardMedicalSchool therapeutic option to transform the genetic “switch” back to the production of fetal hemoglobin to replace defective adult hemoglobin and alleviate these devastating symptoms.
‘We want to look at the importance of different therapeutic recommendations on the transition of power at very low power consumption returns to a normal diet and to assess what really works,’ said Gripeteg. ‘A simple trick that seems to work for patients to return slowly to normal food after losing weight with a diet of very low energy. ‘