There has been a new trend, few people have started following around. i.e. having a meal only twice in a day cycle and prevent the intake of anything in between those meals that is responsible for your insulin secretion. It is assumed that this will prevent the pancreatic beta cells from exertion thereby improve the metabolic parameters.
This is completely in contradiction to earlier concept of taking multiple meals in a day.
Requesting experts to provide their valuable insight and comments.
Hi
That's a great question
That might work in prevention of Diabetes- it mimics the ancient hunter gatherer diet more closely. B cell preservation is very important.
But once the patient is diabetic, then the patient has to follow the chemically induced insulin surges- and eat enough to balance those. Some medications allow for less eating- GLP-1 agonists, metformin and DPP4 inhibitors. But others don't. So one doesn't want to cause unnecessary hypoglycaemia
Yes,i had seen some following this practice but i wont advocate that because:
1- Multiple small meals put less burden on beta cells to produce insulin than 2 large meals
2- Numbers apart, quality of caloric intake especially salad vs red meat or oily stuff again matter
3- Late eating is again not suggested, rather major chunk of meal be taken in early hours of the days
4-postprandial meal peaks need to be taken care of for glucose
some references:
Article Long working hours and skipping breakfast concomitant with l...
Article The Relationship Between Breakfast Skipping, Chronotype, and...
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A hypoenergetic diet consumed twice a day reduced body weight,
Hepatic Fat Content, fasting plasma glucose, C-peptide and glucagon, and
increased calculated insulin sensitivity, more than the
same hypoenergetic diet
divided into six, more frequent, meals. Metabolic Clearence Rate of glucose and beta cell function improved. Eating two larger meals a day may be more beneficial for patients with type 2 diabetes than smaller frequent meals during the day.
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