Researchers in China have demonstrated that fasting for five days, then eating normally for 10, then fasting again could actually reverse type 2 diabetes in sufferers.
The strict regime involves five days of eating only around 840 calories a day, followed by 10 days of eating how you normally would.
The foods on offer for each meal during the fasting period included ‘nutritional rice’, a meal-replacement biscuit containing black beans, maize and oats, and fruit and ‘vegetable gruel’.
Almost half the people who participated in the study managed to reverse their type 2 diabetes within three months.
Researchers believe it may be due to the weight loss experienced. The group who fasted lost an average of almost six kilograms, while the other group lost and average of just 0.27kg.
Have you ever tried fasting?
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