'Diet Plate': Eating plate to prevent obesity

Canadian scientists have successfully tested ' Diet Plate ' - a special type of plate that helps obese and diabetic patients not only lose weight safely, but also need less medication for treatment.

Dr. Sue D. Pedersen with his Diet Plate plate on June 25.(Photo of CTV Newsnet)

Dr. Sue D. Pedersen and colleagues at the University of Calgary conducted a six-month study on the type of plate that has a ' diet control ' function - dubbed Diet Plate - that can be included. Widely used in daily life. Along with Diet Plate, experts also came up with a special 'special' cup and the same effect.

Designed to perform diet monitoring, Diet Plate has lines that divide the disc surface into separate parts for each type of food, such as meat, starch, sauces, vegetables .

Those portions of the plate will determine the proper weight of protein, cheese, carbohydrates and sauces, but also have an uncontrolled part for vegetables.

With this feature, this type of disc helps obese or diabetic patients limit the amount of calories taken into the body, and that restriction helps to lose weight and improve blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes. .

The total energy of food in multiple portions is 800 calories / 1 meal for men and 650 calories for women. Separate cups are designed to provide a limited energy of 200 calories from porridge, milk, soup .

The study was conducted for 130 obese patients with diabetes. The patients were divided into two random groups: the first group used Diet Plate and ' special ' cups during meals; The second group was able to eat and drink with normal cups and plates under the guidance of nutrition experts.

16.9% of obese and diabetic patients lost 5% of body weight after 6 months using Diet Plate.(Photo: news.xinhuanet.com)

Six 6 months of trial, the following results were recorded for the remaining 122 patients in the study (8 did not participate until the end of the session):

On average, patients on Diet Plate and ' special ' cups lost weight at 1.8% of their initial body weight; while in the control group, this ratio was only 0.1%. The proportion of patients with a 5% weight loss in the two groups is much different: 16.9% in the Diet Plate group and only 4.6% in the normal disc group.

The team notes that a 5% reduction in body weight will help reduce the risk of death associated with obesity-related complications, such as cancer and heart attack.

In addition, 26.2% of the patients who used the control plates and cups had reduced the use of diabetes medication, while in the control group, this percentage was only 10.8%.

According to Mrs. Pedersen, using Diet Plate is very simple, because users do not need to measure, weigh food or calculate calories. Speaking to the press, Dr. Pedersen said: 'As with many other studies, our study has also achieved the goal of weight loss in obese and diabetic patients. But the therapy we use doesn't cause side effects, it's effective and cheap to use. '

Quang Thinh