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EventsJunk food can lead to early signs of diabetes in TWO DAYS
Researchers conducted an experiment to study the effects of the American diet. They recruited six men to eat a 6,000-calories-a-day diet consisting of pizza, hamburgers and other junk food (50% carbs) for a week.
Not surprisingly the men gained weight – on average 3.5 kilos (7.7 pounds). More interestingly every one of the six volunteers developed insulin resistance – an early sign of type 2 diabetes. This effect was apparent after only TWO days.
Constantly eating tons of junk food full of carbs can rapidly lead to type 2 diabetes. Doing the opposite might reverse type 2 diabetes. What’s the opposite? A low-carb diet combined with intermittent fasting.
The researchers of course, drew entirely incorrect conclusions:
"Excessive caloric intake acutely causes oxidative stress, GLUT4 carbonylation, and insulin resistance in healthy men"
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/304/304re7 (pay-walled)
They need to run it again, this time replacing grains with selected fats. Won't happen, of course, as THAT won't pass IRB under today's insane metabolic dogma. Sam Felton has already run that trial anyway.