"There is an old saying “you are what you eat”!"
Posted on 07/05/2019 5:25:06 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
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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