A ‘Fad Diet’ That Works Like Medicine? Scientists Say It’s Time to Rethink Fasting

Researchers reviewed more than 225 trials and found intermittent fasting lowers blood sugar and weight—potentially reshaping diabetes treatment guidelines.

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What looks like a fad diet might actually be a treatment plan. Roughly 13 percent of American adults now practice intermittent fasting, making it the third most popular diet in the country. Yet the official playbook doctors use to treat diabetes still barely mentions it. That gap is the target of a new article in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. In it, the three authoring researchers........

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