Planned fasting may help reverse type 2 diabetes.

KARACHI -- Planned intermittent fasting may help to reverse type 2 diabetes, according to doctors who were able to cut out the need for insulin treatment for three patients in their care. Lifestyle changes are key to managing type 2 diabetes, but patients themselves cannot always control blood glucose levels.

According to doctors from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine and Scarborough Hospital in Canada, three men, aged between 40 and 67, planned intermittent fasting to see if it might ease their symptoms. 'The use of a therapeutic fasting regimen for treatment of type 2 diabetes is virtually unheard of,' doctors wrote in the journal BMJ Case Reports. 'This present case series showed that 24-hour fasting regimens can...

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