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Nepal Study: Traditional Diets Fight Type-2 Diabetes
8 Feb
Summary
- Study to test traditional diets for diabetes prevention and reversal in Nepal.
- Low-cost, community-led dietary changes aim to combat diabetes epidemic.
- Project runs from 2026-2030, funded by a £1.78 million grant.
A new study led by the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with Dhulikhel Hospital in Nepal, will explore whether a return to traditional diets can prevent and reverse type-2 diabetes. The CoDIAPREM project, funded by a £1.78 million grant, will run from 2026 to 2030.
Researchers aim to evaluate if community-led adoption of traditional food patterns, excluding processed items, can lead to modest weight loss and combat the surging rates of type-2 diabetes. This initiative is particularly crucial for South Asia, where modern processed foods have contributed to a diabetes epidemic.
The study is designed as a community-based program, emphasizing scalability in low-resource settings. It will assess the potential for traditional diets to prevent diabetes onset and induce remission without medication, building on previous promising pilot studies.
This research addresses the growing global health and economic burden of type-2 diabetes, driven by costly chronic disease management and complications. Findings could offer policymakers an affordable, diet-centered model for diabetes prevention and management in low-income regions.
