The daily super stimulus to prevent diabetes, or maybe not?

The daily super stimulus to prevent diabetes, or maybe not?

Today a newly released case report in the British Medical Journal caught my attention: "Towards creating a superstimulus to normalise glucose metabolism in the prediabetic: a case-study in the feast-famine and activity-rest cycle". Normalizing glucose metabolism in the prediabetic person means nothing less than preventing diabetes in those at high risk. Naturally I sought enlightenment. 

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What weight loss?
You have probably heard one or the other diet guru claiming that manipulating the nutrient composition of your diet will make you lose weight. Well, for those of you, who stubbornly cling to the notion that excess weight is simply a matter of too many calories-in vs. too few calories-out, here is the good news: You are right, after all. It really doesn't matter.
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