What if just one lifestyle change could help you avoid getting cancer or diabetes or

heart disease or high blood pressure?

This one change could cut your risk of chronic disease and add years to your life.

Well the simple solution to so many of these problems is to eat a healthy diet.

In other words one centered around whole plant foods.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast on your host Dr. Michael Greger.

There is a lot of demand for information about fasting and as luck would have it more and

more research is released every day.

Today we look at the practice of fasting to reverse type 2 diabetes.

Currently nearly half a billion adults have diabetes at 50% increase is expected in another

generation.

I've got tons of videos on the best diets for diabetes but what about no diet at all?

More than a century go fasting.

We said to bring about the cure of diabetes, speedily arresting its development and causing

complete disappearance of all its manifestations several days or weeks.

Even so starvation is guaranteed to lead to the complete disappearance of you if kept

up long enough.

It's the point of fasting it away if it's just going to come raging back as soon as

you restart the diet that caused it in the first place.

Might it be useful to kind of kick start a healthier diet?

Let's see what the science says.

Type 2 diabetes has long been recognized as a disease of excess.

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