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- Type of diabetes
- Prediabetes
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- Diet only
This posting is NOT applicable to Type 1 diabetes.
I am finding it very difficult to search on this forum so apologise if this has been posted before. I see a lot on the forum about what should be eaten but more importantly appears to be time between the intake of food. The NHS seems to be obssessed about controlling blood sugars but as increased insulin, increases insulin resistance which then leads to more fat they are not focusing on 'fasting'. The reason they don't focus on that in the USA is because 'Pharma' and 'Food' are heavily involved with the medical profession. Insulin makes you fat, not the food.
Can anyone argue against the following which is fully supported by scientific evidence/studies over the decades in the books writen by Dr Jason Fung "The Obesity Code'' and The Diabetes Code"?
"At its very core, intermittent fasting simply allows the body to use its stored energy, by burning off excess body fat.
It is important to realize that this is normal and humans have evolved to fast for shorter time periods – hours or days – without detrimental health consequences.
Body fat is merely food energy that has been stored away. If you don’t eat, your body will simply “eat” its own fat for energy.
Life is about balance. The good and the bad, the yin and the yang. The same applies to eating and fasting. Fasting, after all, is simply the flip side of eating. If you are not eating, you are fasting.
Here’s how it works:
When we eat, more food energy is ingested than can immediately be used. Some of this energy must be stored away for later use. Insulin is the key hormone involved in the storage of food energy.
There is, however, very limited storage space for carbohydrates; and once that is reached, the liver starts to turn the excess glucose into fat. This process is called de-novo lipogenesis (meaning literally “making new fat”).
Some of this newly created fat is stored in the liver, but most of it is exported to other fat deposits in the body. While this is a more complicated process, there is almost no limit to the amount of fat that can be created.
So, two complementary food energy storage systems exist in our bodies. One is easily accessible but with limited storage space (glycogen), and the other is more difficult to access but has almost unlimited storage space (body fat).
The process goes in reverse when we do not eat. Insulin levels fall, signaling the body to start burning stored energy because no more is coming through food. Blood glucose falls, so the body must now pull glucose out of storage to burn for energy.
Glycogen is the most easily accessible energy source. It is broken down into glucose molecules to provide energy for the body’s other cells. This can provide enough energy to power much of the body’s needs for 24-36 hours. After that, the body will primarily be breaking down fat for energy.
So the body only really exists in two states – the fed state and the fasted state. Either we are storing food energy (increasing stores), or we are burning stored energy (decreasing stores). It’s one or the other. If eating and fasting are balanced, then there should be no net weight change.
If we start eating the minute we roll out of bed and do not stop until we go to sleep, we spend almost all our time in the fed state. Over time, we may gain weight because we have not allowed our body any time to burn stored food energy.
To restore balance or to lose weight, we may simply need to increase the amount of time spent burning food energy.
That’s intermittent fasting.
In essence, intermittent fasting allows the body to use its stored energy. The important thing to understand is that there is nothing wrong with that. That is how our bodies are designed. That’s what dogs, cats, lions and bears do. That’s what humans do.
If you’re eating every third hour, as is often recommended, then your body will constantly use the incoming food energy. It may not need to burn much body fat, if any. You may just be storing fat.
Your body may be saving it for a time when there is nothing to eat."
I am finding it very difficult to search on this forum so apologise if this has been posted before. I see a lot on the forum about what should be eaten but more importantly appears to be time between the intake of food. The NHS seems to be obssessed about controlling blood sugars but as increased insulin, increases insulin resistance which then leads to more fat they are not focusing on 'fasting'. The reason they don't focus on that in the USA is because 'Pharma' and 'Food' are heavily involved with the medical profession. Insulin makes you fat, not the food.
Can anyone argue against the following which is fully supported by scientific evidence/studies over the decades in the books writen by Dr Jason Fung "The Obesity Code'' and The Diabetes Code"?
"At its very core, intermittent fasting simply allows the body to use its stored energy, by burning off excess body fat.
It is important to realize that this is normal and humans have evolved to fast for shorter time periods – hours or days – without detrimental health consequences.
Body fat is merely food energy that has been stored away. If you don’t eat, your body will simply “eat” its own fat for energy.
Life is about balance. The good and the bad, the yin and the yang. The same applies to eating and fasting. Fasting, after all, is simply the flip side of eating. If you are not eating, you are fasting.
Here’s how it works:
When we eat, more food energy is ingested than can immediately be used. Some of this energy must be stored away for later use. Insulin is the key hormone involved in the storage of food energy.
There is, however, very limited storage space for carbohydrates; and once that is reached, the liver starts to turn the excess glucose into fat. This process is called de-novo lipogenesis (meaning literally “making new fat”).
Some of this newly created fat is stored in the liver, but most of it is exported to other fat deposits in the body. While this is a more complicated process, there is almost no limit to the amount of fat that can be created.
So, two complementary food energy storage systems exist in our bodies. One is easily accessible but with limited storage space (glycogen), and the other is more difficult to access but has almost unlimited storage space (body fat).
The process goes in reverse when we do not eat. Insulin levels fall, signaling the body to start burning stored energy because no more is coming through food. Blood glucose falls, so the body must now pull glucose out of storage to burn for energy.
Glycogen is the most easily accessible energy source. It is broken down into glucose molecules to provide energy for the body’s other cells. This can provide enough energy to power much of the body’s needs for 24-36 hours. After that, the body will primarily be breaking down fat for energy.
So the body only really exists in two states – the fed state and the fasted state. Either we are storing food energy (increasing stores), or we are burning stored energy (decreasing stores). It’s one or the other. If eating and fasting are balanced, then there should be no net weight change.
If we start eating the minute we roll out of bed and do not stop until we go to sleep, we spend almost all our time in the fed state. Over time, we may gain weight because we have not allowed our body any time to burn stored food energy.
To restore balance or to lose weight, we may simply need to increase the amount of time spent burning food energy.
That’s intermittent fasting.
In essence, intermittent fasting allows the body to use its stored energy. The important thing to understand is that there is nothing wrong with that. That is how our bodies are designed. That’s what dogs, cats, lions and bears do. That’s what humans do.
If you’re eating every third hour, as is often recommended, then your body will constantly use the incoming food energy. It may not need to burn much body fat, if any. You may just be storing fat.
Your body may be saving it for a time when there is nothing to eat."
