Extreme ‘no food’ diet NHS is prescribing to record numbers to reverse diabetes

Type 2 diabetes patients have been put into remission - something previously thought impossible - by the NHS ‘soups and shakes’ diet

Record numbers of people have been put on a “soups and shakes” diet by the NHS to reverse their diabetes.

Over 30,000 people have now been put on the 12-month total diet replacement programme which provides soups, shakes and bars. This completely replaces normal food for the first 12 weeks then participants are slowly weaned back on to healthy food.

A recent study found one in three patients on the diet programme put their Type 2 diabetes into remission - something which was once thought impossible. Over 13,000 people were enrolled onto the NHS Type 2 Diabetes Path to Remission Programme in 2024/25, almost double the 6,401 the previous year.

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