Promising approach: Prevent diabetes with intermittent fasting

Science Daily ^ | July 2, 2019 | Source: Deutsches Zentrum fuer Diabetesforschung DZD

[ConservativeMind]

Intermittent fasting is known to improve sensitivity to the blood glucose-lowering hormone insulin and to protect against fatty liver. DZD scientists from DIfE have now discovered that mice on an intermittent fasting regimen also exhibited lower pancreatic fat.

Fatty liver has been thoroughly investigated as a known and frequently occurring disease. However, little is known about excess weight-induced fat accumulation in the pancreas and its effects on the onset of type 2 diabetes.

Intermittent fasting reduces pancreatic fat

The team of scientists divided the overweight animals, which were prone to diabetes, into two groups: The first group was allowed to eat ad libitum -- as much as they wanted whenever they wanted. The second group underwent an intermittent fasting regimen: one day the rodents received unlimited chow and the next day they were not fed at all. After five weeks, the researchers observed differences in the pancreas of the mice: Fat cells accumulated in group one. The animals in group two, on the other hand, had hardly any fat deposits in the pancreas.

Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting means not eating during certain time slots. However, water, unsweetened tea and black coffee are allowed around the clock. Depending on the method, the fasting lasts between 16 and 24 hours or, alternatively, a maximum of 500 to 600 calories are consumed on two days within a week. The best known form of intermittent fasting is the 16:8 method which involves eating only during an eight-hour window during the day and fasting for the remaining 16 hours. One meal -- usually breakfast -- is omitted.

[BobL]

Agree, and that’s reasonable, and it is pretty hard to stay totally carb-free. Even Keto allows up to 20 grams a day.

[pepsi_junkie]

Eat dinner at 6pm, no snacks and eat breafast at 8am .... 14 hour fast. People think it’s hard but who hasn’t gotten breakfast until after 8am? Skip breakfast and you are at 18 hours at noon, enjoy your lunch!

[pepsi_junkie]

The establishment not only refused to do studies, when he funded his own they dismissed the results as biased and called him dangerous. Not that they had their own science to support that, no. Just because Ancel Keyes said so. Look him up. He’s the mastermind behind “high saturated fat is poison” and he had to cook the books to even suggest this theory was true and they enshrined him like some sort of holy profit. And here we are, and still having heart attacks at the same rates as before he saved us all with his plan but now we get to be fatter and more diabetic too.

[The Old Hoosier]

This is good advice for anyone, but it’s a whole heck of a lot easier to go 16-18-20 hours without food when you’re keto.

I now do 18:6 intermittent fasting, plus one 48-hour fast per month — believe it or not, it’s almost effortless. I never would have thought it possible before I cut back to 10-20 carbs/day. The whole “hangry” thing just goes away forever.

[BobL]

Yea, you’ve mentioned Keyes before, dead on...both figuratively and literally. Pure evil, he’s probably enjoying Hell with Margaret Sanger.

[tallyhoe]

To keep from getting Diabetes people need to watch their weight. Some people though will still get diabetes..

[Yaelle]

Unless you have an illness that is healed by keto, and you’re not trying to lose many lbs, I think you can safely eat 50 or so carbs a day and still keep lean or even lose some weight. I eat very low carb but not keto (I might be in ketosis some days by accident though).

[Yaelle]

I forgot to say grams

[Karoo]

To me, it makes sense

[BobL]

I won’t dispute that either. The people who do need to take it the whole way are generally diabetic, near-diabetic, and/or obese.

[pepsi_junkie]

Yup. He did a “21 countries” study to look at the effect of high fat diets and then cherry picked the seven that best fit his theory and discarded the rest for his follow up “Seven countries study” which became nutritional gospel. It was fraud. When asked why he stripped out places like Switzerland, Norway, and France which eat very high fat diets and have very low heart disease rates he said (paraphrasing) “no particular reasons, I just didn’t care to travel to those places”. This BS study has resulted in 50 years of “do it or die” warnings and government policies and food manufacturing designing new ever more processed foods which were low saturated fat and high in all the stuff that’s really bad (trans-fats, sugars, flavorings, etc).

[BobL]

I guess the question is how did Keyes wind up being a cult figure for the medical community. It’s weird to me.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Hmm

[pepsi_junkie]

Keyes invented K-Rations which fed the troops in WW2. That made him a national figure. And there were no other nutrionists with anywhere near his stature. Heart disease has been rising since the end of the 19th century but nobody knew why. So when nutition's biggest rock star said "I've studied the problem closely and it's clear: saturated fat causes heart disease" everyone assumed he was right. Heck, I don't think anyone else even thought to consider nutrition played a role (he was dead on regarding that, at least). He was alone, so he became the word of God on the subject.

Then he used all of his influence to suppress anyone from studying anything else. Foregone conclusion after all that.

[Yaelle]

Yes, and keto or verrrry low carb is a great start to curing obesity and type 2 diabetes. Agreed.

[BobL]

Makes sense, thanks (and I remember you mentioning that too, recently).

[SandwicheGuy]

Amen Brother, spot on.

[pepsi_junkie]

By the way, the only studies that have any weight are clinical studies. They control all the variables. They show real, repeatable results. For nutrition they are almost impossible to do. They require you to absolutely control the type and portions of the food people eat over a period of time. There are almost no such studies done on nutrition, there were a few done on patients in mental wards or prisons but they were stopped for ethical reasons.

The alternative are epidemiological studies, which rely on people to self report what they eat, to make sure they eat the right stuff, etc. Huge portions of them will not. So the results are not useful. You can tell a study is epidemiological when they headline reads "Green beans linked to increased libido!" or "Consumption of chicken feet associated with larger noses in men over 30!" And you can be sure that in a few years there will be other headlines that say "Green beans linked to libido suppression" and "Chicken feet associated with nose shrinkage in men over 30". Study something twice using the same flawed method and you can quite easily get opposing results. That's why eggs were a death sentence, then they weren't.

And that's what the Seven Countries Study was, an epidemiological study.

[SandwicheGuy]

Amen Brother, spot on.

[BipolarBob]

He not only believes that it can help prevent diabetes, but he is certain that it can also be used to actually reverse diabetes.

Whoa! Big Pharma is making Big Bucks hawking their wonder drugs and Dr. Fung comes along and is messing up the gravy train. Think of the Big Executives missing out on their bonuses. This Dr. Fung not only helps people get off of insulin but they lose weight too. That spells trouble for the Weight Loss industry. He's a one man wrecking crew. He's helping people and doing it cheaply. We can't have that. Too much money to be made.