" It provides a low-calorie diet and support to people recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes who are living with obesity or overweight.
Inspired by our DiRECT study, the year-long programme offers participants nutritionally balanced, low-calorie meal replacement products (soups and shakes) for up to 12 weeks to kick-start [weight loss] with careful support from expert healthcare professionals."
OK questions:
Was Huel involved or invited to be involved?
Are the meal replacement products better than Huel?
I think the food is free so anyone diabetic and on Huel could sign up and save the money they spend on Huel?
It’s worth noting that this is a carefully monitored program of a short term 12 week extreme low calorie diet of 800 calories a day (8 weeks liquid only followed by 4 weeks of solid food) that is only open to people who meet the program criteria but is fully funded by the NHS – you can see more information on it here.
Outside of the NHS teams, not sure anyone will know TBH – pretty sure it mentioned somewhere in the study paper they used blinding in the products that were used.
My friend Undertook this program very successfully. I’m not sure you can compare the products, As the nutritional balance in the NHS recommended one maybe different.
Taste wiseIt is not huel. Believe me
I asked him to try one of his soups And one shake
They taste really so infinitely inferior to huel It’s unspeakable. Does that get my point across?
Also, it’s not that cheap.
My friend had it subsidised on NHS So it was cheaper to begin with, but needed to carry on past the 12 weeks And was paying pretty much the same.
But I really don’t want to put off anyone who may be thinking of undertaking this. It was extremely successful for my friend and may have saved his life
It seems the soups and shakes they used are provided by Altralife.
They are very low calorie but not suitable for vegans or lactose intolerance - and intended for 8 week ‘programmes’ at £30 a week when purchased direct.