"There is an old saying “you are what you eat”!"
Posted on 07/05/2019 5:25:06 PM PDT by 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.
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There’s more valid science in this research than in keto, though I’m concerned about the extreme fasting that’s becoming almost cultish.
I recommend observing a simple rule for adults (>25): No solid food less than 12 hours before waking, a hearty breakfast and wholesome lunch. “Dinner” is something which needs to taper off for adults over 45, diminishing to a meal approaching more the level of a snack. And don’t forget 1/2-1 oz of water per pound of body weight per day, depending on a range of factors.
Good health follows for many - including loss of stored body fat - with corresponding activity, of course, with corollary lifestyle changes across the board that I’m not elaborating upon here.
I eat breakfast and dinner and skip lunch. My a1c went from 9.1 to 5.3 in a matter of 3 months.
If you don’t eat, you can’t get diabetes.
I got in the habit of only eating in a 6 to 7 hour window 6 days a week and did it for a few years and almost zero sugar and no more than 20 30 grams of carbs a day at the most
Kept my weight down and felt great with the added benefit I could go a day without eating at all with no adverse effects
If you don’t eat, you can’t get diabetes.
There is an old saying “you are what you eat”!
There are many good books on safe fasting. Occasional fasting is natural; continual overeating is artificial.
Read recently that statins cause diabetes.
When I had to fast for my first colonoscopy years ago, I discovered my blood sugar normalized. Also when I had to do extreme labor, like shoveling heavy snow for several hours a day, several days in a row. I had to completely stop my medications or I’d be in trouble with low blood sugars.
“The Experts”
Many studies have found that very few medical schools do much training in nutrition. Admittedly jaded, but I do NOT believe ANY “Expert” anymore in any field. The saying from murder mysteries applies - “Follow the money”
Type 1.5 bump!
I almost never eat before noon or after six.
What they learned the hard way about K-rations—demonstrated by the experience of the (also overused) Merrill’s Marauders in Burma—was that those who subsisted exclusively on them developed malnutrition and lost fighting effectiveness.
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