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Fasting Diet 'Regenerates Diabetic Pancreas' (bbc.com)
According to a new study published in the journal Cell, a certain type of fasting diet can trigger the pancreas to regenerate itself. Of course, the researchers advise people not to try this without medical advice. BBC reports: In the experiments, mice were put on a modified form of the "fasting-mimicking diet." It is like the human form of the diet when people spend five days on a low calorie, low protein, low carbohydrate but high unsaturated-fat diet. It resembles a vegan diet with nuts and soups, but with around 800 to 1,100 calories a day. Then they have 25 days eating what they want -- so overall it mimics periods of feast and famine. Previous research has suggested it can slow the pace of aging. But animal experiments showed the diet regenerated a special type of cell in the pancreas called a beta cell. These are the cells that detect sugar in the blood and release the hormone insulin if it gets too high. There were benefits in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes in the mouse experiments. Type 1 is caused by the immune system destroying beta cells and type 2 is largely caused by lifestyle and the body no longer responding to insulin. Further tests on tissue samples from people with type 1 diabetes produced similar effects.
Not proven to reverse diabetes.
Off fucking topic.
Sorry,
You *chose* to eat a ********CORN-BASED******** diet and then you blame ********EVERYONE ELSE******** when you get diabetes.
U fail. Hard.
They are talking about human equivalency numbers. Of course you can not load mice 1000+ calories per day. Don't be stickler, taking everything out of context just like the bleeding heart liberals, because it gives you a talking platform.
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another pancreas
We already know that the liver will regenerate itself, and no special dietary restriction is necessary (though you do have to be kind to your liver).
If you cut a chunk off of someone's liver, it will grow back. We've learned this from Hepatitis C patients who have Stage 3 fibrosis or even cirrhosis. Cure the Hepatitis C (which is possible now with the new, expensive, drugs) and the liver will come back from the functionally near-dead. It was once believed to be a one-way process, but it turns out it's not.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Of course you can not load mice 1000+ calories per day.
You can if you wrap them in electrical tape first.
Unlike other people, attacking the article, just because they have nothing to contribute, yet want to leave their brain droppings on every topic, I have actually something to say, from personal experience as a type-2 diabetic. Beta cell regeneration is fine and dandy and may help a small portion of type-2 diabetics, but in the US most type-2 diabetes sufferers, are not suffering from not enough beta cells. They are suffering from the condition called insulin resistance. Their body generates enough or some time more than enough insulin. But if the insulin receptors in the cells are not opening up to take in this insulin, it goes to waste. And we have the HFCS to thank for this unfortunate condition in our SAD (Standard American Diet) which the politicians dictated to save the corn field plowing people of the midwest in its day. I hope to see a miracle cure for insulin resistance before I die. RIght now the only thing that works, is a very strict diet (calorie and carb controlled) and a very rigorous physical training for a long-long years time, to reprogram the insulin receptors. Unfortunately, nobody with a day job and family responsibilities, can follow such rigorous program in my opinion, let alone eating in the guidelines of this diet (a.k.a. starvation) Tried and failed miserably after few short weeks, of course with no results to show for. Now shooting Insulin 4-5 times every day, in a vicious circle.
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I'm drunk as fuck right now, this kills my liver, and other organs, because my state doesn't permit other fine less harmless drugs like marijuana, or even well and purely refined opiates from the poppy plant, or even a silly trip from another all natural product that is the mushrooms.
Fuck your so called 'government'.
It mandates poisoning us all.
So that it can continue to tax your ass, kill you, and remain in power.
Free your mind, your body will follow.
please repost the phd comic science news cycle chart, it explains EVERYTHING.
Oh god I want to fuck your tight white ass soooo much.
- DeShaun
You're right bro, they have been royally poising us since the drought was declared in 1989.
And now that we are poisoned, it gives them excuse to have us under 24x7 surveillance
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/diabetes/articles/2008/08/19/is-your-drinking-water-giving-you-diabetes
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/majority-of-california-adults-have-prediabetes-or-diabetes
Regenerating beta cells in the pancreas has the potential to help people with type 1 diabetes more than type 2, you are right. Something like 1 in 7 people with type 1 diabetes will die in their sleep in a hypoglycemic coma. Life expectancy is much reduced. So, this is a big deal for those people.
From that oh-so-reliable website, Web MD, "The investigators found that men with type 1 diabetes had an average life expectancy of about 66 years, compared with 77 years among men without it. Women with type 1 diabetes had an average life expectancy of about 68 years, compared with 81 years for those without the disease, the study found."
patients. Thinking people know this is something that predates Obama, so this is his fault.
And we have the HFCS to thank for this unfortunate condition
The link between HFCS and diabetes is very, very weak. It is more myth than reality. One study found a correlation at the national level between countries that use a lot of HFCS and also have higher levels of type 2 diabeties, but that is a weak link with very few data points that could have a lot of other explanations rather than direct causality. AFAIK, no study has found a causal link between HFCS and diabetes in humans. If the link was really as strong as many corn critics claim, then it would be very easy to show causality, yet that hasn't happened. I am very interested in this topic, so if someone can cite a study, I would be very interested to see it.
Disclaimer: I try to avoid HFCS (and other sugar as well), but I am not a fanatic about it.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Is keeping a job to pay rent considered poor "life choices"? Or is having a family in the first place rather than being single and child-free considered poor "life choices"?
Retard refuses to use medicine. Retard faces consequences. Fucking die so the rest of us don't have to support your stupid fucking decisions you fucking parasite. - Brought to you by the Republican Party
explaining why Dachau was good for all those Jews - it gave them a brand new pancreas, and who doesn't want one of those!
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"Scientific evidence suggests that the re-sensitization of taste nerves takes between 30 and 90 days of consistent exposure to less stimulating foods. This means that for several weeks, most people attempting this change will experience a reduction in eating pleasure. This is why modern foods present such a devastating trap--as most of our citizens are, in effect, "addicted" to artificially high levels of food stimulation! The 30-to-90-day process of taste re-calibration requires more motivation-- and more self-discipline -- than most people are ever willing to muster.
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I feel Dr. Fuhrman is slightly wrong about a few of things, but overall he is very right on the big picture and a good place to start. Good luck nomad63!
A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.
Furthermore HFCS and cane [table] sugar are essentially the same thing and both are highly processed. In the case of cane sugar the glucose and fructose molecules are bound together creating a crystalline structure whereas with HFCS the molecules do not share a bond and therefore the substance is much more pliable.
Really eating any excessive amounts of any type of sugar is bad a person's health but there is a huge financial incentive for producers of cane sugar to discredit the much cheaper HFCS even though they're both highly processed, plant based and, practically, have identical chemical composition.
You write "RIght now the only thing that works, is a very strict diet (calorie and carb controlled) and a very rigorous physical training for a long-long years time, to reprogram the insulin receptors." Fortunately, that is not completely true.
I could write an entire thesis here about why this is so, but others already have done so extensively. Just google for "Reverse type 2 diabetes" or LCHF and look out for a website called dietdoctor dot com. Enjoy opening a pandora's box of information.
You might not believe this low carb - high fat (LCHF) moderate protein diet for reversing type 2 diabetes, but what's the harm in trying? In the Netherlands, we are already a few steps further, one of the largest healthcare insurance providers is now providing full coverage for LCHFas an effective and cheap treatment for type 2 diabetes. That has to tell you something.
It's a little-known fact that the current dietary guidelines, primarily based on very weak 50-year-old scientific evidence, are actually driving the non-communicable diseases such as type 2 diabetes and fueling the obesity epidemic. This is why you need to go to places like dietdoctor to find your information and you cannot rely on information from webmd or the mayo clinic. The authors Nina Teicholz and Gary Taubes have written great books about this. Again, enjoy opening a pandora's book.
The article's main focus was diabetes, but does anyone know what it meant when it mentioned hormones related to pancreatic cancer?
The simpler more processed a carbohydrate is, the more Gloucester it will deliver. Eating minimally processed carbohydrates with lots of fiber and good fat is key. The problem with our diet is that we eat fat with no fiber, like meat, or sugar with no fiber, like potato and no skin.
And a lot of this is genetics. I suspect this would be helpful to someone who is at risk of diabetes.
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It is amazing how much healthy practice gets incorporated into religion. Fasting is important for Muslims and Bhuddists. I'd wager it is not a coincidence.
Could the Jewish people on to something with their passover meals. Based on this article they could be on to something about it. It is interesting how we take religion for granted but there is some interesting back story that is usually forgotten with traditions. Passover might be one of these.
First, I sympathize with this your plight. I have insulin resistance and sugar sensitivity, worsening with age. However, I've scaled my life slowly, in fits and (re)starts, to drop most of my sedentary habits and instead convert that time to movement - any movement. So lunches are walking, before and after work is biking, weekends are more of the same. I would offer that if your family knew you'll be dying earlier, after accumulating a massive medical portfolio and insurance rates, they'd make a lot more windows of time open for you to move. Even if you have to watch the kids, treadmills are perhaps a good way to stay moving and still in one place. Jump-rope, seriously, is so freaking exhausting I'm always surprised how little I can do. Anyway, ease into it, and best of luck. I would never scold you for failures, but don't give up on your health. It's quite seriously the only thing keeping you alive. Get into a "scene" of fitness, online and locally. Nothing helps motivation more than having a friend cheer you along.
WTF is this description of the fasting diet?
Since when did it become an unsaturated fats feast?
That's certainly not what it is supposed to be. The fasting, or 5 and 2 diet involves simple calorie reduction to around 500 calories 2 of every 7 days..
Hell.. 1000 calories is nothing like fasting.. you can easily live on that 365 days a year..
Has this also been Americanised into irrelevance?
I suppose a diet has to be easy to be marketable and therefore profitable right? Who cares if it is no longer effective..
Don't be stickler, taking everything out of context just like the bleeding heart liberals, because it gives you a talking platform.
Hehe, ironic...
If you don't like alcohol, there is still smoking, and strippers.
Yes
Now shooting Insulin 4-5 times every day, in a vicious circle.
If you have a working pancreas and need to take insulin, I suggest eating less of the foods, that raise your glucose levels in the first place. You don't have to go extreme, you don't have to eat foods that make you feel sick. You can cook tasty satiating foods, with just less of rice, pasta, potatoes, and such things.
You can make adjustments in steps you feel comfortable with.
FRA: STFU GTFO
Nice try schmuck. You still lost.
Here is a medical doctor discussing sugar in general and HFCS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Peoples' bodies seem to differ (YMMV). I've been a vegetarian for 40 years, being brought up like that. I'm doing much better, health-wise, by including some red meat in my diet (about 100grams every other day seem to make a huge difference).
Furthermore HFCS and cane [table] sugar are essentially the same thing ... In the case of cane sugar the glucose and fructose molecules are bound together creating a crystalline structure whereas with HFCS the molecules do not share a bond and therefore the substance is much more pliable.
You contradict yourself.
Some people think that in the case of table sugar (sucrose), the breaking of the bond between the glucose and the fructose portion takes additional energy, so overall the total energy after digestion to be stored as fat is less. Not my field, so I don't know if it's really true and how much difference it makes in practice.
I do agree though, by avoiding most processed foods and their added sugars, and use very little sugar, HFCS, or most other factory produced foodstuffs in my kitchen. It's a bit of an adaptation away from the traditional diet, though not a real hardship.
Try a ketogenic diet.
is having a family in the first place rather than being single and child-free considered poor "life choices"?
Perhaps it's time for the first world to consider child insurance. It's not fair for the rest of us to have to foot the bill for the breeders' decisions.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
That's not fasting. That's a modified fast. Wimps and their half-arsed fasts.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
The author is essentially correct. HFCS and sucrose, are so similar in their biological effect, that they are for practical purposes identical. HFCS consists of free glucose and fructose in an approximately 50:50 ratio (there is a some variability, but infrequently enough to be relevant). Sucrose is a molecule with a glucose and fructose group covalently bonded, hence an exactly 50:50 ratio. The time scale for hydrolysis of the glucose-fructose bond in sucrose is as fast, if not faster, than the time scale for the absorption of the glucose and fructose. The bond is weak, and the energy requirement to break it is negligible (far below 0.5%). Hence there is very little difference in the overall physiological effect, in terms of both quantity and rate of absorption of glucose and fructose, and overall energy release.
If all refined sugar consumption is lumped together, then there is a strong correlation between population sugar consumption and population prevalence of T2 diabetes. Additionally, changes in population t2 diabetes prevalence follow and correlate with changes in population sugar consumption.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0057873
While this is not absolute proof of causation, it is nevertheless provides strong evidence that sugar consumption is an independent risk factor for T2 diabetes, even after correction for other known risk factors.
No problem, just expect to pay more when you need help from somebody else, because right now everyone is a breeder's child.
Got any source?
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You sound knowledgeable. I'd be interested in your source. Thanks.
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It (100 g) also sounds like a huge amount of meat to me.
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I'm really getting sick of all that 'Trump' nonsense.
Starting today I'll ignore all threads from the moment Trump is mentioned.
Bring your political frustration somewhere else please.
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Only morons believe what 'public institutions' say. Old USSR inhabitants can teach you a lot about that.
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RTFA
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
Appropriate energy intake for critically ill mechanically respirated patients ~1900kcal/day. That is adjusted for the body weights etc.
https://health.gov/dietaryguid...
Shows that 1000kcal is appropriate for a sedentary 3 year old, 2400kcal for an average 18 year male and 2000kcal for average 18 year female. That is for moderately active people, sedentary people need less and those with high activity need more.
First I want to express my empathy with your difficult situation.
Further beta-cell regeneration is only necessary in type 1 diabetes, which is covered in the article, although I feel also there is a suggestion that the damage to the beta-cells could be caused by the high levels of insuline that have to be produced from the time the insuline resistance kicks in in those mice.
The insulin resistance which type 2 sufferers suffer from, can be reversed by a 'not so very strict diet' for about 6 to 8 weeks only and without a very rigorous training, let alone for years.
I'd say try again, a little longer, and no guarantees promised.
(And yes, you're right, HFCS is pure shit.)
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The socialist state IS the insurance. :)
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I take it you use the term 'oh-so reliable website, Web MD' in a cynical sense, as trusting WebMD regarding diabetes, cancer and vaccines, is about the same as trusting wikipedia regarding Trump vs. Clinton/Obama.
Here's an interesting presentation regarding HFCS/fructose.
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" If the link was really as strong as many corn critics claim, then it would be very easy to show causality, yet that hasn't happened."
You know, for a long time there was no real study that showed direct causality for lead being harmful to the human body. That was despite people trying to do the science to prove it. It was actually more a miracle that eventually someone was able bring the facts to the table and get lead more or less out of our lives.
The question you have to ask is if there's any rich industry that needs to make sure such a causality never gets revealed.
Not my job. This is an internet post not a peer reviewed article submission. If you think I'm wrong, prove it.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Thank you for that!
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Right'o, don't bother bro.
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From a story in The Morning Call :
Something like 1 in 7 people with type 1 diabetes will die in their sleep in a hypoglycemic coma.
That's hard to believe. Aren't there implants that control your levels 24/7? What's the problem?
Remind me again, how exactly did you come to exist on this earth? Oh yeah, that's right, those darned breeders.
Is keeping a job to pay rent considered poor "life choices"?
Having a day job is no excuse to eat like crap and not exercise. Cut out the sugar and other refined foods, and get 10-15 a day of exercise, and you'll be doing better than the majority of the population.
White/Aryan culture created modernity ... over the last 20,000 years. We are the human champions padr'es and had better breed lots. Breed or see a bad-seed nibberized/Semitized world turn good-for-shit. HELLSTROM CHRONICLE insects will eat us and given current sluttish equalitarian human choices that's simple justice.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
Appropriate energy intake for critically ill mechanically respirated patients ~1900kcal/day. That is adjusted for the body weights etc.
https://health.gov/dietaryguid...
Shows that 1000kcal is appropriate for a sedentary 3 year old, 2400kcal for an average 18 year male and 2000kcal for average 18 year female. That is for moderately active people, sedentary people need less and those with high activity need more.
No wonder I wax hungry all the time on the 1,200 calorie diets they put me on as a teenager!
Unfortunately, nobody with a day job and family responsibilities, can follow such rigorous program in my opinion, let alone eating in the guidelines of this diet (a.k.a. starvation)
I'm confused... not eating takes too much time...?
I don't respond to AC's.
If you read the work, or see the video presentations of Linus Pauling, you might find that L-lysine could be the new aspirin for cardiovascular health, together with ('extremely') 'high' dose vitamin C (as sodium ascorbate).
But acceptance of this idea might depend on one's 'conservancy' and 'traditionality'.
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"Essentially" "Practically" If the two chemicals were identical they would have the same name and the same chemical composition. They are not the same. It has been noted that part of normal human metabolic activity includes the ability to metabolize both sucrose and fructose to the same chemicals at some point. This is very different than "they are practically the same." Metabolic processes take place at specific places in the body and in response to particular hormonal and enzymatic mechanisms. So even though the same chemicals may be generated in the end, with something like handling sugar in the body where timing is of great importance there can be significant differences in the health consequences of the two.
For almost all of civilization, and as nearly as we can tell before that, grains formed the foundation of diets. Look in the mirror while brushing your teeth and you'll see teeth evolved to crush grain. We also have teeth designed for ripping meat and teeth designed for cutting vegetables. Evolution has been gathering data a lot longer than the undergrad quality science you see misrepresented in diet fads.
Your idiotic ranting is based 100% on the demonstrably wrong assertion that Americans eat the FDA standard diet. In fact, American cultures are so varied, as are their diets, that an assertion across the US population is most certainly not strongly driven by diets.
Remind me again, how exactly did you come to exist on this earth? Oh yeah, that's right, those darned breeders.
Yeah, and look at how badly the world needs me! Why, if they and others like them hadn't brought billions of people onto this planet (just since I was born) the world would have positively ended by now!
Granted, I wouldn't be here, but I would never have been here so consequently I wouldn't miss it. There wouldn't be an I to be upset about it. Unless you subscribe to some belief about magical sky spirits who come down and inhabit all good christian babies at the time of conception (or similar) then it's irrational to argue about policies on the basis that they would have prevented your birth unless you're really something special. Are you really something special?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
That is less meat than is in a quarter pounder at McDonalds.
He should have been born rich! Geez, how hard is it?
Lemme guess. You're a climate change denier and you argue incessantly about little words that you have no real understanding of.
Ok. I am nearly 40 and a lifelong veggie. Tell me more - I need health benefits too!
True, you'd have to be in VHEMT to say breeders ought not to exist. But in the same way that many U.S. states require drivers of motor vehicles to carry liability insurance, generally privately underwritten, the state could require breeders to carry unemployment insurance that covers the full cost of the child's upbringing, also probably privately underwritten.
By my rough calculation, 100g is less than a quarter pound. If you want it exact, Google will do the conversion.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
It seems reasonable that a fasting diet might help this, also, however. But 5 days a month is a bit extreme. I could do it a few times, but I think I know myself well enough to say I probably wouldn't be able to continue doing it. And from my past experience 1000 calories a day is harder to handle than a complete fast (except water).
What I'm trying is an extremely restricted carbohydrate diet. I even consider Oat bran to be high in carbohydrates. Wheat bran, however, and wheat germ are essentially free. I'm not totally pleased with the results, but it's certainly an improvement, and it seems to be something I can tolerate on a continued basis. I allow myself one meal a day which has, perhaps, a couple of slices of bread, or some potato. This seems to be important. If I get too low on non-fiber carbohydrates my glucose level rises...and I'm still trying to get a handle on whether that's good or bad.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
I'm really getting sick of all that 'Trump' nonsense.
Starting today I'll ignore all threads from the moment Trump is mentioned.
Bring your political frustration somewhere else please.
You and me both brother!
It will all be over when they start investigating his Russia connections, conflicts of interest and or release his taxes.. All it takes is one congressional investigation and one instance of his "Made up facts" and he will be impeached faster than Bill Clinton was back in 98.
I second the motion, Off topic Mentions of Trump should be assigned to the lameness filter so you can't post them here.
That's only 3.5 oz. That's very small.
The socialist state IS the insurance. :)
But breeders, who are placing a greater load upon the system, actually get a deduction for each rug rat. They're expected to pay less in taxes because they're producing offspring we don't need, unless we're short on low-information voters.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I concur with everything you stated -- except about the difficulty of a proper diet and exercise to help you with your type 2 diabetes. I have a close friend that is type 2 and now no longer needs meds thanks to a careful diet. I have other friends and family members that fall into the pre-diabetic range as well and type 2 diabetes is in our families.
Insulin resistance has multiple factors, but diet and exercise is almost always effective. IR is mostly a metabolic issue with muscle tissue -- and just 30 minutes of cardio every day can help a LOT. Muscles prefer to burn sugar instead of fat, so exercise helps re-activate those insulin receptors. Even without exercise, just altering one's diet (no starvation!) can help immensely.
Stay away from HFCS, sucrose (table sugar), and fructose (and any fruit juice that may have it, but isn't labelled as such) -- with the exception of whole fruits. Fructose is converted directly into fat by the liver which creates free-floating blobs of fat in the bloodstream that are correlated with insulin resistance. While fruits do contain fructose, it's in small amounts and almost always comes with fiber! Fiber slows the fructose absorption so it won't shock your liver as much... and fruits are fairly filling with water and fiber considering their low calories. Try to stay away from grapes, though. They have the highest sugar content of most fruits. Eat all the fruits, nuts, sunflower seeds, vegetables, and seafood (except Tuna) you like. (though watch out for bottom feeding fish that may have too much mercury). Omega 3 fatty acids have been shown to decrease insulin resistance and inflammation (great for cardio-vascular system). Minimize your Omega 6 fatty acids as they do the opposite. Also, stay away from red meat. Nuts and seeds are kind of a mixed bag, but the Omega 3s balance the Omega 6s, and fat will signal the satiating response that sugar just doesn't do. One needs fat and protein to "feel full", and lots of water. Chew slowly, eat small amounts at a time, and drink lots of water between bites to help feel full faster.
Look up what an average person of your height, weight, gender, and lifestyle should take in calorie-wise per day, and set that as a target goal to get closer to and/or under. One typically doesn't have to go full-speed starvation mode to lose weight. Track how many calories you're eating per day, and set a goal that's under that if you think you need to lose weight. Move the goal slowly as you do lose weight, and remember if you diet, the first 5 to 10 lbs you lose will mostly be water weight from your liver burning through its glycogen stores, so expect to gain that back rather quickly when you stabilize at a lower weight.
I wish you well in your fight against type 2 diabetes.
TL/DL -- avoid fructose, sucrose, red meat; reduce Omega 6s; eat lots of seafood, fruit, vegetables, nuts 'n seeds
RTFA. Then follow the link to the paper. They DID try it on humans. Worked reasonably well (though the sample was small so it was more "does this maybe work on people, too? Is it worth a big study to check?" rather than "do all the results reproduce in people just like mice or are they quantitatively different in THIS way?").
Interestingly, they used a proprietary commercial boxed Fasting Mimicing Diet - L-Nutra's ProLon (Developed by a team including a USC Davis professor specializing in gerontology and life-extension) - on the human experimental subjects.
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There are many single, and poor, parents who are quite stressed for time. A 7-11 sandwich, a bottle of soda, and a bag of chips is just the sort of meal that many parents can afford the _time_ for when they're on the run to work, day care, and ordinary medical or educational meetings for their family.
> . One has more trouble eating a pound of butter than a pound of sugar
While you have a point, your question might be somewhat misleading. A pound of sugar has roughly 1300 calories. a pound of fat roughly 1800. And you might be surprised by the amount of fat in many popular foods.
That's a bullshit excuse for eating like crap.
Well, a quarter pound is in my calculation something like 225 g/4 or 56 g, definitely less than 100 g.
And, do you really think that's all meat?
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Ok, there was a 'slight' calculation error in that one which slashdot doesn't allow me to correct.
But still, I can't believe that pound/4 is all real meat. Let alone anything like organic...
Actually it's about 450/4=112.5 g, slightly over 100 g indeed.
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Dr Hyman's "The Blood Sugar Solution" book mentioned earlier (in a Dr. Fuhrman comment):
http://bloodsugarsolution.com/
One of several books he wrote:
https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Hy...
A review on his very latest book"Eat Fat, Get Thin: Why the Fat We Eat Is the Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant Health":
https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Fat...
"I was a member of Dr. Hyman's beta test group for this book and my results were miraculous. I was an insulin dependent type 2 diabetic with high blood pressure. I have been off all of my medications and have lost about 50 pounds. I have no more heartburn, no more stiff joints and feel like I am 30 years younger. It is truly an amazing book. Words are not enough to express my gratitude to Dr. Hyman for giving me back a healthy life."
His bio:
http://drhyman.com/about-2/abo...
He is director of the Cleveland Clinic for Functional Medicine:
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/...
A related medical practice in MA (great video overview there of the big picture):
http://www.ultrawellnesscenter...
A movie he is in about the societal problem:
http://fedupmovie.com/#/page/h...
Good luck! One thing Dr. Hyman points out is that it helps to get well as part of a community -- it is tough to go it alone. If you can find a buddy or support group to make the health shift with, you are twice as likely to succeed.
A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.
Unlike other people, attacking the article, just because they have nothing to contribute, yet want to leave their brain droppings on every topic, I have actually something to say, from personal experience as a type-2 diabetic. Beta cell regeneration is fine and dandy and may help a small portion of type-2 diabetics, but in the US most type-2 diabetes sufferers, are not suffering from not enough beta cells. They are suffering from the condition called insulin resistance. Their body generates enough or some time more than enough insulin. But if the insulin receptors in the cells are not opening up to take in this insulin, it goes to waste. And we have the HFCS to thank for this unfortunate condition in our SAD (Standard American Diet) which the politicians dictated to save the corn field plowing people of the midwest in its day. I hope to see a miracle cure for insulin resistance before I die. RIght now the only thing that works, is a very strict diet (calorie and carb controlled) and a very rigorous physical training for a long-long years time, to reprogram the insulin receptors. Unfortunately, nobody with a day job and family responsibilities, can follow such rigorous program in my opinion, let alone eating in the guidelines of this diet (a.k.a. starvation) Tried and failed miserably after few short weeks, of course with no results to show for. Now shooting Insulin 4-5 times every day, in a vicious circle.
Please investigate fasting and read and listen to everything you can by Dr Jason Fung. That's all I'm going to say ... I hope it gets you curious.
If all refined sugar consumption is lumped together, then there is a strong correlation between population sugar consumption and population prevalence of T2 diabetes. Additionally, changes in population t2 diabetes prevalence follow and correlate with changes in population sugar consumption.
Right. The causal relationship between HFCS and T2, insofar as there is one, is probably economic: by making it cheaper to increase the amount of sugar in processed foods, HFCS encourages consumers to increase the sugar in their diet. Maybe.
Where people in the US might once have been buying the occasional 6.5-ounce bottle of Coca-Cola as a treat, for example, the declining cost of the stuff meant that in 1955 Coke could introduce the 10- and 12-ounce "King Size" and 26-ounce "Family Size" bottles. And average portion sizes continued to grow - also helped, of course, by the move to plastic bottles and other factors. So now the typical convenience-store Coke drinker purchases a 20-ounce plastic bottle and consumes three times the sugar of his 1954 equivalent.
Of course they're paying more now. In 1954 that Coke likely cost a nickle or possible six or seven cents (Coke was in the process of discontinuing their 5-cent fixed price at the time). That's about $0.55 today, whereas that 20oz bottle of cola now probably goes for around three times that. So price per gram of sugar, adjusted for inflation, for Coca-Cola seems to be about the same now as it was in '54.
On the other hand, that's only one product, and consumer prices don't necessarily reflect industry costs. Coke has a strong brand which affords it significant protection from market forces. Also, HFCS really became a player in the 1970s, and declining sugar prices then might have accustomed consumers to eating more sugar in general.
Even a $1.50 Banquet frozen dinner has a serving of vegetables.
Exercise and eat a vegetable-based diet (not KFC, etc).
know nothing about diabetes ?
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
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> Unfortunately, nobody with a day job and family responsibilities, can follow such rigorous program in my opinion, let alone eating in the guidelines of this diet
I reverted my diabetes (insulin resistance) in under 6 month just by switching my diet to LCHF (low carb, high fat).
I also lowered my body weight from 320lbs to 200lbs and my body fat % from 32% to 17% by adding weight lifting and HIIT after I was light enough to exercise.
That was 7 years ago. Still going strong.
Great, but next time swap the sugar soda with water - or at the very least - diet soda, swap the bag of chips with some baby carrots, and now you are much better off without spending any more time.
What? A 1200 calorie a day diet for a teenager is child abuse.
Your body is likely so fucked up at this point that a healthy diet would kill you.
Sure, when you get diabetes you go ahead and do that. Your early death will improve the world for the rest of us since it will obviously raise the average IQ by a point or two.
Obviously.
People's ignorance never ceases to amaze me.
Next we'll have someone advocating for a grain based diet to help with diabetes.
What? A 1200 calorie a day diet for a teenager is child abuse.
I certainly felt so, LOL!
There is a reason I chose that specific combination. It's a very cheap lunch bundle at the local 24 hour store, and does not include options for either fresh vegetables or bottled water.
Why don't you look at what happens to the taxes that a government gets when the population fails to have a next generation.
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