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Is Prevention possible:

Fortunately it is possible to prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes through diet and exercise. This was shown conclusively through a landmark clinical trial, known as the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), which looked at 3,234 Americans who had impaired glucose tolerance and therefore were at risk for developing type 2 diabetes.

The study found that people who lose 5%–7% of their weight and exercise about 30 minutes a day can reduce their risk by 58%. The same study found that the oral diabetes drug metformin (Glucophage) also lowers risk, but less dramatically, by 31%. Smaller studies in China, Finland, Europe, and Canada have shown that diet and exercise or treatment with the drug acarbose (Precose) can delay type 2 diabetes in at-risk people.

However, the DPP, conducted at 27 centers nationwide, was the first major trial to demonstrate the effectiveness of lifestyle changes or drug intervention in a diverse group of overweight, high-risk people. A new national multicenter trial, known as Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) is now under way to determine whether the lifestyle changes that proved so effective in the DPP study can be maintained for a longer period and prevent heart attacks, strokes, and other types of cardiovascular disease in people who already have type 2 diabetes.

The Look AHEAD study has enrolled 5,000 participants who will be followed for as long as 111/2 years. Results of the study will be available in the next decade.

CAL has been developing a device, Dedicated Diabetic Machine (DDM) that will therapeutically treat diabetic patients, to increase the relative insulin producing performance of endogenous pancreatic beta cells into insulin producing beta cells, and also regulate pancreatic secretion leading to weight loss.

Pancreatic therapy will repair and regenerate the cells of islets of langerhans and enhance their ability to produce insulin, regulate and treat high blood sugar. The transformation of insensitive or impaired of islets of langerhans results in an increased insulin secretion and increased insulin level in blood plasma. DDM has integrated methodologies driven from bio-mechanics, endocrinology, aryuvedic science and bio-feedback control system to regulate blood sugar level.

CAL claims, DDM to be a breakthru techniques over the current form of treatments: