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To Fast Or Not To Fast?

After reading this article I am sure I have lost a few of my brain cells. I hope people see their GP if they are obese and want to go on a weight loss diet, instead of reading an article like this and basing their decisions on it.

I probably tried 30 diets in 30 years before learning that LCHF suited my body the best. I would have done damage to my body through some of them.

Thank goodness for this forum or I would never have known what to do.
 
It has been known for decades that starvation can cause diabetes - the pancreas gets calcified for some reason, if my memory serves me well, but this is proper starvation as in third world countries for a long time, not diets in developed countries. This is why one is meant to have a diet including 300 gm CHO for several days before a glucose tolerance test for diabetes.

This was a rat study not a human study and a day of fasting a rat is equivalent to a much longer period of starvation in humans.

http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/e...ety-of-endocrinology-annual-meeting-ece-2018/

It is just one abstract at a scientific meeting so one would want to see the published paper;

I have come across several diabetic folk using the 5:2 diet which led to weight loss and improved glucose control.

I would not worry too much about this.

best wishes
 
ickihun said:
I used to fast but I'm sure I was diabetic first.
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I'm tempted to say "It is the Express", whoops I just did. They obviously haven't read Jason Fung.

"Fasting can impair the action of the sugar-regulating hormone, insulin" An interesting comment, surely if you're fasting you shouldn't be producing as much insulin because it isn't needed. So long as the pancreas produces the insulin required for when you eat again. What's the problem? Insulin is the fat storing hormone and insulin resistance requiring more insulin is behind weight gain.
 
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