In a new study carried out by Chinese researchers, almost half of a group of people who\u00a0fasted intermittently\u00a0experienced remission of their Type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\u00a0research\u00a0found that people who fasted for five days, then ate a normal diet for 10 days, were much more likely to see their condition go into reverse than individuals who did not fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The researchers in China looked at 72 people with\u00a0Type 2 diabetes, half of whom were for a three-month period put on a regime involving five days of eating about 840 calories a day followed by 10 days of normal food intake. The other 36 participants, who formed a control group, ate normally throughout the three months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During follow-up analysis three months later, diabetes had gone into remission in 17 of the 36 people (47 per cent) who intermittently fasted. Remission meant that the blood sugar level was below a certain threshold.In contrast, diabetes went into remission for just one of the 36 members of the control group, while their avera weight loss was only 0.27kg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The benefits of the restricted diet appeared to last, because a year after the experiment ended, diabetes was still in remission for 16 of the 36 people who fasted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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