. With intermittent fasting, you only eat during a specific window of time. Fasting for a certain number of hours each day or eating just one meal a couple of days a week can help your body burn fat. Research shows intermittent fasting can lower your risk of diabetes and heart disease.
“Type 2 diabetes is not necessarily a permanent, lifelong disease. Diabetes remission is possible if patients lose weight by changing their diet and exercise habits,” said Dongbo Liu, Ph.D., of Hunan Agricultural University in Changsha, China.
Results of the study challenge the conventional view that diabetes remission can only be achieved in those with a shorter diabetes duration . In fact, sixty-five percent of the study participants who achieved diabetes remission had a diabetes duration of more than 6 years .