An
unhealthy diet has a huge effect on the increase of insulin resistance which
causes an increase in blood sugar. For this reason, experts recommend the intermittent fasting diet that can be more easily applied in combination with traditional
methods to prevent this situation.
When
Insulin Resistance Develops, Blood Sugar Rises
This
condition called insulin resistance is the condition occurring when the rate of
insulin in a person's blood is high but not effective enough. Insulin is
actually a hormone that carries glucose to muscle, fat, and liver cells
secreted from the pancreas, which rises in the blood after eating. If insulin
resistance has developed in your body, not enough sugar can enter these cells
and be used. In this case, blood sugar raises.
Insulin
Resistance Can Be Estimated
There
are many ways to detect whether a person has insulin resistance. However,
nowadays the most common option is to calculate the HOMA-IR index. With this
method, insulin resistance is estimated based on the fasting blood sugar and
insulin levels of the blood given after 8 hours into fasting.
Diet,
Exercise, and Medication
When it
comes to insulin resistance, all alternatives such as diet, exercise, and
medication should be considered. Because with these three methods in a certain
order and process, the effectiveness rates increase very much.
In the
traditional process, patients are advised to eat little and often. But recently
intermittent fasting diet has begun to alter.
Eating
Little and Often is Difficult and Tiring
In the
method where you eat little and often, there is a process of eating 6 meals a
day, and it is quite difficult to have that much time in today's fast social
structure.
Due to
this feature, it is also far from practicality and it provides poor sustainability.
The purpose of this diet is to speed up the metabolism by eating frequently and
to reduce the likelihood of overeating at the main meal.
For people who eat only one
meal a day on a poor diet, there is a risk of failure in the long run, although
it is effective in the short term. If you learned to control the portion size,
it is no longer necessary for you to eat six meals a day.
