Low carb program tops bill at annual public health conference

A low carb program developed by a leading online diabetes forum will form part of the schedule to be discussed at a public health conference this weekend. 

This year the Public Health Collaboration Annual Conference will focus on tackling the growing diabetes epidemic with low carb and lifestyle changes.

Charlotte Summers, chief operating officer of Diabetes.co.uk, will take to the stage at the event which is taking place in Manchester on Saturday, June 17.

As part of Charlotte’s presentation she will be looking at how the Diabetes.co.uk’s free Low Carb Program is reinventing structured education and saving the NHS thousands. She will also be sharing success stories as to how following a low carb diet has seen significant health outcomes in people with diabetes. She will be joined by low-carb pioneers Dr David Unwin and Dr Jason Fung.

So far over 200,000 people from all over the world have downloaded the free web-based Low Carb Program from  Diabetes.co.uk. Designed to be a healthy sustainable lifestyle intervention that is experience-led, rather than a quick fix ‘diet’, the 10-week program takes people through the theory and also provides the practical application on how to implement a low carb lifestyle.

The Low Carb Program is the first evidence-based, digital structured education program aimed at educating people with type 2 diabetes about how a low-carb approach to management can help people lose weight, improve their health and wellbeing and their medication dependency.

It has been created with the feedback of 20,000 people and is changing the approach to type 2 diabetes with the understanding that it is not inevitably a chronic progressive disease rather a metabolic condition that with the right approach can be put into remission.

The Public Health Collaboration is a charity dedicated to informing and implementing healthy decisions for better public health. It was set up by Samuel Feltham who moved away from a career in fitness to fully focus on improving public health by setting up and directing the Public Health collaboration.

In the UK, 25 per cent of adults are obese and type 2 diabetes has risen by 65 per cent in 10 years, both costing the NHS £16 billion a year.

If you are interested in watching the conference, Diabetes.co.uk will be live streaming both days on their Facebook Page.