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by
Jason Fung
In type 1 diabetes, the body’s own immune system destroys the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.
resulting low insulin level leads to high blood sugar.
In type 2 diabetes, however, insulin levels are not low but high. Blood sugar is elevated not because the body can’t make insulin but because it’s become resistant to insulin—it doesn’t let insulin do its job.
Excessive insulin causes obesity, and excessive insulin causes insulin resistance, which is the disease known as type 2 diabetes.
stop eating at 6:00 p.m. and then don’t eat again until 6:00 p.m.
the next day.
