Researchers recommend that this type of food for diabetics.
Armed with the latest research results, experts from the European Association for the study of diabetes ready to refute sacrosanct in the past, postulate about the benefits of 6 meals a day is a fractional power for diabetics.
For example, the Institute for clinical and experimental medicine (Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, in the experiment involving 54 people (29 men and 25 women) aged 30 to 70 years with diabetes.
Participants were alternately follow one of two variant modes of supply:
fractional frequent meals 6 times a day in small portions;
2-single meal – Breakfast and dinner, with no snacks
The caloric daily amount of food consumed in both cases the diet was 500 calories below the quantity of daily energy expenditure.
Thus, both programs offered to the participants, can be called “weight loss program”, with only one only a difference in mode of food intake.
Classic presentation about proper nutrition, of course, argue in favor of the first option when there are no long gaps between meals, often scolding “ravenous appetite”.
However, it should be remembered that in this case we are talking about patients with diabetes, and in this case the priority is the achievement of control of blood glucose concentrations and body weight.
Now, clinical data collected from the real patients has led researchers to conclusions opposite to the intended.
12 weeks testing participants who adhered to the 2-time diet lost weight, on average, 3.7 kg; and patients receiving the same volume of food from the fractional – only 2.3 kg.
The reduction in fatty infiltration of the liver for the first group amounted to 0,04%, for the second – 0,03%.
In addition, the subjects who took food only 2 times a day, to the greatest extent, increased sensitivity of beta cells to insulin, decreased glucose concentration in the blood, as well as the content of C-peptide, glucagon.
Thus, we can safely say that 2 times a day, not 6 meals (fractional) power, more efficiently, and to achieve compensation of diabetes patients to achieve greater control over biochemical parameters of blood (glucose, C-peptide, glucagon) and the sensitivity of the beta cells of the pancreas to insulin.
