If diet could cure diabetes...
(WorldNews Health)

Overeating and obesity are risk factors for insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, so you´d be forgiven for thinking that abstaining from food could help fix the problem. While the situation is much more nuanced, there´s certainly cause for considering an intermittent fasting (IF) regime, since both experimental and clinical studies have shown that the dietary approach improves insulin sensitivity and glucose control along with modest decreases in body weight. In a 2017 study, researchers from the University of Southern California put 100 people through a series of 30-day cycles of periodic fasting. After just three cycles - each with 25 days of unrestricted eating and five days of...