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Would you choose the drip-fed diet to lose weight?
How far would you go to lose weight? A controversial new procedure is being offered privately to obese and moderately overweight patients in the UK.
Andreas Kallis has lost 21kg (46lb) after three cycles, lasting 10 days each, of the KEN treatment Photo: HEATHCLIFF O'MALLEY
By Abigail Butcher7:30AM BST 24 Oct 20113 Comments
The Government may be urging us to lose weight – but what lengths would you go to in order to get slim? How about a 10-day regime of being drip-fed a daily 130 calories of liquid food via a nasogastric tube?
Dr Ray Shidrawi, a leading gastroenterologist at Homerton University Hospital, London has brought a controversial treatment developed more than 30 years ago in Italy to the UK. Ketogenic Enteral Nutrition (KEN) sends the body into a controlled “starvation mode”, forcing it to use its own fat for energy. Dr Shidrawi says that weight loss with KEN is between 4 per cent and 9 per cent of body weight per 10-day cycle, without, he claims, any side effects or feelings of hunger.
“KEN is not a cure for obesity – that requires a lifestyle change – but it is a safe, non-invasive way of drastically reducing a patient’s weight,” says Dr Shidrawi.
Every new patient visiting his Harley Street clinic has body fat, water, mineral and muscle content assessed using a bioimpedance machine (which measures electrical resistance), before Dr Shidrawi works out his or her target weight.
The patient has a tiny (1.9mm) tube inserted down the nose into the stomach. “It’s not the most pleasant procedure for some people,” he concedes.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/wellbeing/8711645/Would-you-choose-the-drip-fed-diet-to-lose-weight.html
How far would you go to lose weight? A controversial new procedure is being offered privately to obese and moderately overweight patients in the UK.
Andreas Kallis has lost 21kg (46lb) after three cycles, lasting 10 days each, of the KEN treatment Photo: HEATHCLIFF O'MALLEY
By Abigail Butcher7:30AM BST 24 Oct 20113 Comments
The Government may be urging us to lose weight – but what lengths would you go to in order to get slim? How about a 10-day regime of being drip-fed a daily 130 calories of liquid food via a nasogastric tube?
Dr Ray Shidrawi, a leading gastroenterologist at Homerton University Hospital, London has brought a controversial treatment developed more than 30 years ago in Italy to the UK. Ketogenic Enteral Nutrition (KEN) sends the body into a controlled “starvation mode”, forcing it to use its own fat for energy. Dr Shidrawi says that weight loss with KEN is between 4 per cent and 9 per cent of body weight per 10-day cycle, without, he claims, any side effects or feelings of hunger.
“KEN is not a cure for obesity – that requires a lifestyle change – but it is a safe, non-invasive way of drastically reducing a patient’s weight,” says Dr Shidrawi.
Every new patient visiting his Harley Street clinic has body fat, water, mineral and muscle content assessed using a bioimpedance machine (which measures electrical resistance), before Dr Shidrawi works out his or her target weight.
The patient has a tiny (1.9mm) tube inserted down the nose into the stomach. “It’s not the most pleasant procedure for some people,” he concedes.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/wellbeing/8711645/Would-you-choose-the-drip-fed-diet-to-lose-weight.html
there is a society in London some of them scientists who restrict their calories to about 1200 a day Research with rats suggests that eating an extreme low cal diet prolongs life
they all look very ill and thin
But seem to be fairly fit