Natural Food Interaction Diet
This website is dedicated to those suffering from type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes - as well as healthy individuals who just struggle to lose weight.
The NFI diet has been carefully designed to support your body nutritionally. Whether for type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes or generalised weight loss, the meal plans provided will be specifically tailored and individually designed without calorie restriction.
Type 2 Diabetes
No doubt you have already read numerous articles about reversing type 2 diabetes and by now the evidence is overwhelming that it is possible to achieve it through dietary change.
However, most of the articles tend to agree on one similar point: a person suffering from type 2 diabetes will have to lose their excessive body weight and when this is achieved, your blood sugar will naturally fall to that of a healthy individual. What commonly is failed to be explained is that even with substantial weight loss, numerous people (in fact the majority of people) never achieve remission.
You may have asked yourself the following questions:
- • What is the chance of a yo-yo effect after a diet?
- • So really, what are the chances that a diet will work for me long-term?
- • What is different about the NFI diet?
The NFI Diet
When people sign up or are prescribed onto the NFI diet, they receive specifically tailored and individually designed, fully nutritionally balanced meal plans without calorie restriction. As the NFI diet resets your body and eating habits during the tailored programme, the majority of people finish the NFI Diet without ever wanting to go back to their old eating habits. This, in turn, allows people to be in charge of their diet moving forwards after completion of their specifically tailored course. For patients suffering from type 2 diabetes, this is after achieving remission and for those people who are overweight, this is after achieving a normal weight status.
Is Type 2 Diabetes Really Reversible?
We as the founders of the NFI diet believe that type 2 diabetes is reversible in the vast majority of cases. The cases where it is not possible is predominantly due to ‘pancreatic burn out’, which is where the pancreas is unable to produce enough insulin to control your blood glucose. If you are one of the very unfortunate people who have this issue, which is often a symptom of long-term type 2 diabetes drug use, you can still see dramatic improvements to your health by following the NFI Protocol.
The main cause of type 2 diabetes is the excessive buildup of fats (lipids) coating the muscle and organ tissues within the body, specifically the insulin receptors on any tissue or organ cell.
This prevents the insulin that has been produced by the pancreas to bind to insulin receptors of the body’s cells. Because this bonding of insulin on the insulin receptor works much like a key in a lock which opens the door for glucose from your bloodstream to enter inside, if those receptors are clogged by intramyocellular lipid particles, the key will not work in the lock and the door will not open. This will then prevent the glucose from entering the cells and in turn pushes the glucose back into the blood, raising the blood sugar levels and causing what is commonly known as type 2 diabetes.
What Is Type 2 Diabetes Remission?
The word remission in the context of type 2 diabetes is a highly debated topic at the moment and a better understanding and definition is clearly needed. Our view is that it represents a person who does not require medication and has blood glucose levels of a healthy individual (HbA1C below 5.6%).
