Study Says THIS Popular Diet Can Help Improve Health Of People With Diabetes, Heart Disease

A recent study published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine and led by researchers from the University of California San Diego and Salk Institute in the US found that limiting your food consumption to a 10-hour window daily may keep your diabetes in check. Read on to know how intermittent fasting can be beneficial for people with diabetes and heart disease.
Intermittent Fasting Can Help Improve Health Of People With Diabetes, Heart Disease?

Intermittent Fasting Can Help Improve Health Of People With Diabetes, Heart Disease

A new study found that limiting your food consumption to a 10-hour window daily may keep your diabetes in check. Researchers also found that following the 10-hour eating window, a type of intermittent fasting can also help you manage metabolic syndrome which is a group of medical conditions that can lead to heart disease, diabetes and stroke.
The risk factors attributed to the syndrome include increased blood sugar levels, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, all of which are key factors for poor heart health. The study was published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine and led by researchers from the University of California San Diego and Salk Institute in the US.
According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, “Intermittent fasting is an eating plan that switches between fasting and eating on a regular schedule. Research shows that intermittent fasting is a way to manage your weight and prevent — or even reverse — some forms of disease.”
There are several ways you can do intermittent fasting, however, the basic idea is to cut down on calories and eat within a given time window. For example, you can eat only during an eight-hour window every day and fast for the rest of the day. Or you might eat during a 10-hour window and fast for the remaining 14 hours. You might also eat only one meal a day for two days every week. There are no fixed ways to eat during intermittent fasting. You will have to speak to your dietician or nutritionist and choose your eating interval.
Researchers said the findings of the study can help people who are looking to address their metabolic syndrome and reduce their risk for Type 2 diabetes. For the study, 108 adult patients with metabolic syndrome were randomised into either a time-restricted eating group or a control group.
Both groups continued to receive standard-of-care treatments and underwent nutritional counselling on the Mediterranean diet. In the time-restricted eating group, each person had to reduce their eating window to 10 hours per day, which began at least one hour after waking up and ended at least three hours before going to sleep.
After three months, patients who had completed the time-restricted eating regimen showed significant improvements in key indicators of heart health. Satchidananda Panda, a professor at the Salk Institute explained that the time of day plays an important role in human bodies’ processing of sugars and fats.
When people limit their eating window, they “re-engage the body’s natural wisdom and harness its daily circadian rhythms to restore metabolism and improve health”.
The routine also helped people lose body weight, maintain proper body mass index (BMI), and manage abdominal trunk fat — a type of fat closely linked to metabolic disease, the researchers said. Importantly, participants did not experience significant loss of lean muscle mass, which is often a concern with weight loss.
(With inputs from IANS)
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