This trend was reinforced by the results of a recent study, which showed that intermittent fasting can lead to recovery from type 2 diabetes, but despite its support, there is a group of people who consider it “based on inaccurate information.”.
“Intermittent fasting is not a diet that is adhered to for a period of time, but rather a lifestyle and a way of scheduling eating times,” said the doctor of glands and diabetes, Paula Atallah, in an interview with “Sky News Arabia”.
She explained, “While most diets focus on what we eat, the intermittent fasting system revolves around when we eat, but it does not include stopping drinking water.”.
Weight loss and fat reduction
According to Atallah, who is the former president of the Lebanese Society for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Lipid Diseases, there are multiple ways to follow the “intermittent fasting” system, including, for example, eating as usual during 5 days of the week, with the exception of two days in which food is limited to a meal containing 500 calories. refractory.
She explained that among its benefits:
- Helping in the process of losing weight and fighting obesity, and improving blood pressure levels and heart health, by reducing cholesterol and fat levels.
- It helps in recovering from type 2 diabetes, like many diets that depend on healthy food and exercise, if treatment begins early in the infection and not after 10 years, for example.
Atallah stressed the need to consult a specialist doctor, as there are individuals who should not follow “intermittent fasting”, such as pregnant women or even type 1 diabetics..
For her part, said the founder and director Low Cal The Diet Clinic Lana Fayed, to Sky News Arabia, said, “The idea of intermittent fasting is to allow insulin levels to drop enough and for a sufficient time, so that the individual can burn fat.”
She pointed out that studies “have proven that this system is completely beneficial, like diets that depend on eating fewer calories on a daily basis.”.
Intermittent fasting followers
Fayed pointed out that individuals who follow the “intermittent fasting” system are divided into several groups:
- Those who limit eating times within 8 hours during the day, to stop eating during the night.
- Another group set eating times at night, to be content with drinking liquids during the day.
- A class that stops eating or drinking for two days a week, to return to a normal diet for the remaining five days.
According to Fayed, “intermittent fasting helps the individual control his appetite, as after hours of stopping eating, the body depletes its sugar stores, and then begins the process of burning fat in order to meet its energy needs,” noting that the benefits of this system include “Prevention of infections in the body.”
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