Popular for weight loss, intermittent fasting may help with diabetes too

[NJCher]

October 27, 202311:01 AM ET
By Will Stone

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Research suggests that simply having less time to eat can lead people to cut down on how much they ultimately consume, without the rigmarole of watching each calorie.

Now, new research bolsters the case that intermittent fasting — specifically limiting when you eat to a given window of time during the day — can be a safe and effective strategy for managing Type 2 diabetes.

The study, published on Friday in JAMA Open, finds people with Type 2 diabetes can dmo[shed weight and manage their blood sugar by eating only within an 8-hour window each day.

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Those who only ate between 12 p.m. and 8 p.m. ended up losing nearly double the amount of weight as those who counted their calories.

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https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/10/27/1208932809/popular-for-weight-loss-intermittent-fasting-may-help-with-diabetes-too

[Bluethroughu]

1. Thanks for posting.

I was wondering about this, and I'm going to give it a try.

[JohnSJ]

2. I would suggest that anyone who considers intermittent fasting should probably check with their

physician, especially if they have diabetes

[NJCher]

3. yes, for those who just read the snip

the article says:

For those with Type 2 diabetes though, Taub and Bruno say patients should not take up intermittent fasting without medical supervision.

For example, in the JAMA Open study, some participants needed to have their medications adjusted depending on their blood sugar test.

Bruno says concerns about hypoglycemia from fasting appears to be one reason there haven't been more studies on people with Type 2 diabetes till now.

[mahina]

4. Pubmed plug of the day- your free key to unlock reasearch

Published in peer reviewed scientific journals: add the term pubmed to any medical search. You’ll see abstracts with citation numbers. Sometimes you’ll be able to read the whole article. The first link below is like that.

These links below just show the title and the link. To read the abstract hit the link or go find what you need. “Pubmed hot dog fingers viagra” , “ pubmed partisan republicans early dementia”, etc.

I don’t know enough about science to be able to read the whole article, but the abstract is enough for me to get the gist of it most of the time.

You can always go to a university near you and use the library to read the rest of the article or you can contact the authors directly and ask him to send it to you. Often they will do it for free- they usually don’t get any of the money from the journals that collect.
Example:
“Pubmed intermittent fasting diabetes” yielded
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34909309/

Intermittent Fasting: A User-Friendly Method for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Mahreen Saeed et al. Cureus. 2021.

This one has 89 citations so it has been widely cited in other research, so, credibility ⬆️
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7856758/

Intermittent fasting: is there a role in the treatment of diabetes? A review of the literature and guide for primary care physicians

This is part of our national legacy, our national treasure, science, publicly, funded by your tax dollars. It’s shame that this is not more widely known.

[NJCher]

5. Very helpful

Eom

[mahina]

6. Thanks! A librarian taught me this.

A State of Hawaii university librarian, another public treasure.

For research other than medical in nature add scholar.google to your search.

For example, searching terms “scholar.google republican misinformation“ yielded

Misinformation Review
misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu
Misinformation in action: Fake news exposure is linked to lower trust in ...
by K Ognyanova · 2020 · Cited by 196 — Misinformation in action: Fake news exposure is linked to lower trust in media, higher trust in government when your side is in power. One major ...


Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com
Programs tracking misinfo are buckling amid campaign led by Rep. Jim Jordan
Sep 23, 2023 — “If the question relates in any way to misinformation or disinformation, please do not respond,” read the guidance email, sent in July after a …

Unlike NIH pubmed searches this will yield some articles as well as research abstracts. It may also include some medical publications depending on your search terms

Aloha

[NJCher]

7. saved these 2 posts

going to have fun trying this out.

Aloha!

[mahina]

8. Great! Scholar.google.com is the website

https://scholar.google.com

Saving us wading through hype and nonsense.