Another fasting link.....

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/12/08/feeding-tube-diet-answer-for-diabetes-study-suggests/

This one is an 800 calorie ketogenic short-term tube feed, but seems to radically reduce insulin resistance. It is essentially no different to a juice fast. Quite why they see the need to tube it rather than give it in drnk form (unless its ghastly!), I really don't get.

The article points out, obviously, that this is not sustainable in the long term, but it's pretty likely that the participants would go back to eating the rubbish food that made them diabetic in the first place.

If they were to do this, and then carry on with a ketogenic full diet, the outcome might just be different. Few seem to have the ability or motivation to maintain this kind of diet though, sadly.

If things are that bad you need to resort to being fed by a tube, my guess is the motivation of the individual must generally be fairly low. As you say Ali, the chances of keeping up a low carb healthy lifestyle post this treatment must be fairly slim. If you'd reduced carbs and made some lifestyle changes beforehand, the majority wouldn't even need to go down this route.

Not forgetting with these extreme low calorie diets (Done a few in the past to get skinny for a holiday) usually resulted in me hitting the chip shop or chinese takeaway big time for a blow out after the weight loss due to being so hungry and then it was a slippery slope and ended up gaining the weight back plus some more as my body had gone into starvation mode and hung onto everything it could.

Apparently that enteral diet mix is absolutely disgusting. I believe something similar is given for SIBO patients (to starve the overgrown gut bacteria) and I've heard how revolting it is, so that's probably the reason for the nose tube.