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artificial sweeteners, and refined could be a way to manage diabetes
carbohydrates. Intermittent fasting through diet.
What is intermittent fasting?
Intermittent fasting is a type of diet in which involves fasting for 16 hours and
which people cycle between periods of reducing the eating window to just 8
eating and fasting. It does not specify hours. For example, a person can have
the foods that are allowed during the dinner at approximately 7 p.m., skip
eating window. The most common type breakfast the day after, and eat lunch at
of fasting is known as the 16:8 method,
Intermittent Fasting: Moderate on and off eating
around 11 a.m. Other forms involve The study included three men, aged 40–
fasting for 2 days per week, 24-hour 67, who were taking both drugs and
fasting once or twice each week, and daily doses of insulin to manage the
fasting every other day. disease. They all had high blood
pressure and high cholesterol.
Researchers used intermittent fasting as
a method to reduce the symptoms of "The use of a therapeutic fasting
type 2 diabetes in a new observational regimen for treatment of [type 2
study conducted in Canada and diabetes] is virtually unheard of," the
published in the journal BMJ Case authors of the study write.
Reports.
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