Killer Orange is out

<p>Courtesy: prof Osibo.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3GU-7E-N-Gk2WAeUdAhY8c2YxOBG_QK6HolAgXMV5U2xOi-gfAAPDpvN1jWGXaDTFBLw1JtAn60GNydHo51N5CbqVBIuQH0-GZ7M_thJLr8H4goBri7kTs7Q6MhNuNRDW0rKUXqOZJco/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3GU-7E-N-Gk2WAeUdAhY8c2YxOBG_QK6HolAgXMV5U2xOi-gfAAPDpvN1jWGXaDTFBLw1JtAn60GNydHo51N5CbqVBIuQH0-GZ7M_thJLr8H4goBri7kTs7Q6MhNuNRDW0rKUXqOZJco/" /></a><br></p><p><br></p>I greet u all. Please, a certain orange has arrived in town. It is more than poison. It is killing people seriously. If u happened to buy an orange and after cutting u notice it that has only three seeds inside, please don't consume it is poison. Throw it away. It is killing people. So please share this information speedily  if you have it, so that we can save the lives of our brethren. Thank you.

Killer Orange is out

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When destiny brought you on the scene, we were enamoured because you championed the case for true federalism

<p>Courtesy: Ade Ogly</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg414ubN4JmWXH4TJ4dsEW7kjQeOa5Z8HcrKtqlBD9lj4zV4hYmaZOcF5yze2NcKO99nPbFbtlx9inoVB_36TZJmV2NQ21UNMcB_KIUV6jCFBQMrk1V9yfmPrvT3tsnzkk8XiD139DdO2I/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg414ubN4JmWXH4TJ4dsEW7kjQeOa5Z8HcrKtqlBD9lj4zV4hYmaZOcF5yze2NcKO99nPbFbtlx9inoVB_36TZJmV2NQ21UNMcB_KIUV6jCFBQMrk1V9yfmPrvT3tsnzkk8XiD139DdO2I/" /></a><br></p><p>PLS EVERY YORUBA SONS AND DAUGHTER SHOULD READ, COPY AND SPREAD PLEASE</p><p>OPEN LETTER TO AHMED ASIWAJU BOLA TINUBU </p><p><br></p><p>BY GENERAL ADEYINKA ADEBAYO </p><p><br></p><p>IYIN EKITI. </p><p><br></p><p>My dear Asiwaju,</p><p>I am compelled to write this open letter to you because of the state of affairs of the Yoruba nation. Firstly, I wish to acknowledge that fate has put you in a prime position to determine to a large extent the direction that the Yoruba people will go. The indisputable truth is that one may quarrel with your politics but your sagacity is never in doubt. Even those who don't see eye to eye with you agree that you are imbued with unusual native intelligence, uncommon people skills and unrivaled foresight. You, more than any other person, has been the game changer since the advent of democracy in 1999. It is for these reasons that I have chosen to direct this letter to you.</p><p><br></p><p>My singular purpose is to tug at the strings of your heart. I am not writing to appeal to partisan considerations but to see, if per chance, I can pour out my heart to you in a manner of speaking. God has blessed you even beyond your wildest imagination. You have installed Senators and Governors. You have removed Governors and even a President. You have also installed a President. There is nothing you have wished for or desired that you didn't get. Fortune has smiled on you. Goodwill follows you everywhere you go. You have done very well- more than most men ever will. However, there is one area that is begging for your urgent attention. This area may well define you and all you have ever achieved. This matter, in my opinion, is the only difference between you and the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Let me restate for the purpose of emphasis that this is the area in which the late sage and Leader of the Yorubas stand head and shoulders above you. It is the reason his name has been a constant denominator in our regional and national politics. It is the reason politicians, friends and foes invoke his name for political advantage and personal glory. It is also the reason why we can't stop talking about him almost thirty years after his death. What will anyone say about you thirty years after you have transited?</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ3RWnL0CTuK6f-akb54juURa5iP2LdtUeDj99xOdNUNzf0h6SpmL6QjPAiwAAM90ZaaWKMbyjqwhQxvyje-5wP-ve4-DXwGldcyWxMabciyg2UAIP8-04yypQ6RX59J_3fUWI4xNypFI/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ3RWnL0CTuK6f-akb54juURa5iP2LdtUeDj99xOdNUNzf0h6SpmL6QjPAiwAAM90ZaaWKMbyjqwhQxvyje-5wP-ve4-DXwGldcyWxMabciyg2UAIP8-04yypQ6RX59J_3fUWI4xNypFI/" /></a><br></p><p>Asiwaju Sir, you may be wondering what I'm talking about? It is the issue of legacy. According to Peter Strople, 'Legacy is not leaving something for people, it is leaving something in people'. Legacy is building something that outlives you. Legacy is greater than currency. In the words of Leonard Sweet, ' What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy'. You can't live forever, Sir. No one can. But you can create something that will. Enough of speaking in parables- I shall now speak plainly.</p><p>When destiny brought you on the scene, we were enamoured because you championed the case for true federalism. It was your belief then that the Yoruba nation will fare better under a restructured arrangement than under the type of unitary government we run while pretending by calling it a federal government. Everyone knows that there is nothing federal about our government at all. If truth must be told, the Yoruba nation has fared very badly since the advent of our new democracy. And this is not about holding power at the centre.</p><p><br></p><p>Let me bring this home: someone passed a comment recently that he would want Biafra to become a reality because he knows the Igbo nation will survive. That comment led me to deeper introspection as I wondered if the Yorubas can truly survive. Let me cite my first example. From Oyo to Osun, Ogun to Ondo, Ekiti to Kwara and Lagos, hardly will one see any serious industry or manufacturing concern owned by a Yoruba person. I am not talking about portfolio businesses or one-man business concerns. Most industries in Oyo State are owned by the Lebanese. The native business and industry gurus who dominated the landscape- Nathaniel Idowu, Amos Adegoke, Lekan Salami, Alao Arisekola, Adeola Odutola, Jimoh Odutola, Chief Theophilus Adediran Oni and others- are all gone with no credible replacements. I'm sure you remember the tyre factory of the Odutolas and how Jimoh Odutola was even asked by the Governments of Kenya and Ghana to set up a similar factory in their countries. Chief Theophilus Adediran Oni, popularly called T.A Oni & Sons started the first indigenous construction company in Nigeria. He willed his residence- Goodwill House, to the Oyo/Western state government, to be used as a Paediatric Hospital, which is now known as T.A Oni Memorial Children Hospital at Ring Road in Ibadan. This sprawling family Estate and residence was cited on a 15acre piece of land, 65 rooms, with modern conveniences, Olympic Swimming Pool and stable for Horses, etc.</p><p>People like Chief Bode Akindele started companies like Standard Breweries and Dr Pepper Soft drink factory at Alomaja in Ibadan. Broking House built by the late Femi Johnson, an insurance magnate, still stands glittering in the mid-day sun as an epitome to a rich history that Ibadan has. The most serious and only notable Yoruba entrepreneur we have now is Michael Adenuga. I say this quite consciously because most of the other names are oil and gas barons. Most of what stood as testaments of industry in Oyo State are gone- Exide Batteries, Leyland Autos and many others. In its place are shopping malls and road side markets but no nation develops through buying and selling alone- especially when you're not actually producing what you're selling. Hypermarkets and supermarkets have taken over because of the need to feed our insatiable consumer-appetite and foreign tastes. In one instance, an ancient landmark in the form of a hotel was demolished to pave way for a mall. That is how low we have sunk. If our past is better than our present- if we always look back with nostalgia frequently, then there is a problem.</p><p><br></p><p>The case of other states is not different. Osun's case is pathetic. Ditto for Ondo and Ekiti. Ogun State can boast of some factories at Sango-Otta and Agbara axis but most of them are not owned by the Yorubas. There is no significant pharmaceutical company owned by any Yoruba except for Bond Chemicals in Awe, Oyo State- and its wallet share is very insignificant. For Lagos State, more than 70% of the manufacturing concerns and major industries in the State are owned by the Igbos. If the Igbos were to stop paying tax in Lagos State, the IGR of Lagos State will reduce by over 60%. In contrast, Sir, go to the South East and look at the manufacturing concerns in Onitsha, Aba and Nnewi. Please don't forget those were areas ravaged by civil war a mere forty something years ago. The Igbos have certainly made tremendous progress but the Yoruba nation has regressed. I wish to state that this letter is not meant to whip up primordial considerations or ethnic sentiments but just to put things in proper perspective.</p><p><br></p><p>Asiwaju, I will like to also talk about the state of education in the Yoruba nation. Our education has gone to the dogs. We have a bunch of mis-educated and ill-educated young men and women roaming the streets. Ibadan, for instance, had the first University in Nigeria and the first set of research centres in Nigeria ( The Forestry Research Institute, the Cocoa Research Institute (CRIN), The Nigerian Cereal Research Institute Moor Plantation (NCRI), the NIHORT (Nigerian Institute of Horticultural Research), the NISER (Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research), IAR&T (Institute of Agriculture, Research and Training), amongst several others). Ibadan was the bastion of scholarship with people like Wole Soyinka, JP Clark, D.O Fagunwa and Amos Tutuola as residents. In the May/June 2015 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, Abia came tops. Anambra came 2nd while Edo was 3rd. Lagos placed 6th while Osun and Oyo was 29th and 26th. Ekiti was 11th, Ondo State was 13th and Ogun State was 19th. In 2013 WASSCE, only Lagos and Ogun States were the Yoruba States above the national average. If we do an analysis of how Lagos placed 6th in 2015, you will discover that it was substantially because of other nationalities resident in Lagos. For proof, please look no further than the winners of the Spelling Bee competition which has produced One-Day Governors in Lagos State. Since inception in 2001, other nationalities have won the competition six times (Ebuka Anisiobi in 2001, Ovuwhore Etiti in 2002, Abundance Ikechukwu in 2006, Daniel Osunbor in 2008, Akpakpan Iniodu Jones in 2011 and Lilian Ogbuefi in 2012). Sir, there is something seriously wrong about our state of education. From the vintage times of Obafemi Awolowo who initiated 'free education', we have regressed into a most parlous state.</p><p><br></p><p>Let me talk about roads, housing and infrastructure . The first dualized road in Nigeria, the Queen Elizabeth road from Mokola to Agodi in Ibadan was formally commissioned by Queen Elizabeth in 1956. The first Housing Estate in Nigeria is Bodija Housing Estate (also in Ibadan) which was built in 1958. The state of roads in the Yoruba nation has become pathetic. Our hinterland are still largely rural. Even some state capitals like Osogbo and Ado-Ekiti are big villages when you compare them to towns in the South East. How many new estates have been built over the last decade? Even Ajoda New Town lies in ruins.</p><p><br></p><p>We have abandoned the farm settlement strategy of the Western Region and only pay lip service to agriculture. Instead of feeding others like we once did, others now feed us. We plant no tomatoes, no pepper and the basic food that we require. The Indians have bought the large expanse of water body that we have in Onigambari village. The water body in Oke Ogun of Oyo State can provide enough fish to feed the whole of the South West. From being a major cocoa exporter many years ago, one can point to just a few vestiges of factories that still deal with Cocoa in the Yoruba nation. 80% of Cocoa processing industries in the South West have been shut down. The Chinese have taken over the cashew belt at Ogbomoso in Oyo State. They have even edged out the indigenes as brokers. They now come to the cashew belt to buy from the local farmers, sell on the spot to other Chinese exporters who now process the cashew nuts and import them back into Nigeria at a premium. Sir, there are only 7 major cashew processing plants in Nigeria and you can check out the ownership. The glory has departed from the Yoruba nation.</p><p><br></p><p>Apart from Asejire, Ede, Ikere Gorge and Oyan dams built ages ago, where are the new dams to cater for increased population and water capacity for the Yoruba nation? How have we improved on what our heroes past left us? Maybe apart from certain areas in Lagos State, others can't even supply their citizens with pipe-borne water.</p><p><br></p><p>Our youth which we used to take pride in are largely a mass of unemployed and unemployable people. Have you noticed the abundance of street urchins, area boys, touts and 'agberos' that we now have all across the Yoruba nation? Have you noticed the swell in the ranks of NURTW (I mean no disrespect to an otherwise noble union)? Have you noticed the increase in the number of Yoruba beggars? There was a time that it was taboo for a Yoruba man to beg- but no more. The spirit of apprenticeship is dead. There was a time that people who learn vocational skills celebrate what we referred to as 'freedom'. While that is largely moribund now in the Yoruba nation, the Igbos still practice it with great success.</p><p><br></p><p>The only thing we can boldly say the Yoruba nation controls is the information machinery- the press. We own largely the newspapers- the Nation, Punch, Nigerian Tribune, TV Continental and a few others. It is because of our control of this information machinery that we have rewritten the narrative in the country with the misguided self-belief that things are normal and we are making progress. A look beyond the surface will prove that this is so untrue.</p><p>We are largely divided. For the first time in the history of the Yoruba nation, religion is about to divide us further- and it is starting from Osun State. You are married to a Christian. My own father-in-law is an Alhaji. That is how we have peacefully do-existed but the fabrics are about to be torn to shreds because of poor management of issues. Afenifere has been reduced to a shadow of itself. OPC that once defended Yoruba interests has gone into oblivion. Yoruba elders have been vilified in the name of politics and partisanship. It is no longer news to see teenagers throwing stones at their elders because of their political indoctrination. Even under the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the Yorubas never belonged to just a single party- yet our unity was without blemish. Now, our values have gone down the drain.</p><p><br></p><p>Asiwaju, I believe I have said enough. The task is Herculean but I believe Providence has brought you here for such a time like this. It is time for the Yoruba nation to clean up its acts. What do we really want? How can we quickly right the wrongs? The Yoruba nation is in a state of arrested development. The Yoruba nation is gasping for breath and crying for help. Will you rise up to the occasion? I am aware you understand that all politics is local and charity begins at home. Our fathers gave us a proverb: 'Bi o'ode o dun, bi igbe ni'gboro ri'. I know there are no quick fixes but I also know that if there is anyone who has the capacity to do something about our current situation, that person is you. This should be the legacy you should think of. Your legacy is our future.</p><p><br></p><p>Yours Very Sincerely,</p><p>Adebayo Adeyinka</p><p>Iyin-Ekiti</p>

When destiny brought you on the scene, we were enamoured because you championed the case for true federalism

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rgb(38, 38, 38);">Intermittent fasting may help you live longer</span> 01:01</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="articleBodyContainer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div id="ArticleZone-ArticleBody" class="ArticleZone" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="_53039000 storyHighlightsGlobal styles_storyHighlights__1IpdF _2df25e03" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 16px; border-width: 2px 1px 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(230, 230, 230) rgb(230, 230, 230); border-image: initial; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin-bottom: 20px;"><h3 class="cnnds_kicker" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 12px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px;">STORY HIGHLIGHTS</h3><ul class="styles_list__1_Bwk" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><li class="styles_highlight__1bpMD cnnds_txt_small" data-area="normal-highlight" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); font-size: 14px;">Three people with diabetes were able to stop taking insulin after intermittently fasting, according to a new report</li><li class="styles_highlight__1bpMD cnnds_txt_small" data-area="normal-highlight" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); font-size: 14px;">More research is needed to prove this as a potential therapeutic regimen for diabetes</li><li class="styles_highlight__1bpMD cnnds_txt_small" data-area="normal-highlight" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 14px;">Experts do not recommend trying a fasting diet without talking to your doctor first</li></ul></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span data-type="sourceText" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">(CNN) — </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Three men with Type 2 diabetes used "intermittent fasting" to reverse their dependence on insulin, according to <a href="https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-221854" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">a report published Tuesday</a> -- but you shouldn't try it without medical supervision, experts say.</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The new case report says the three patients also lost weight, and their HbA1Cs, a measure of blood sugar levels, improved.</div><div class="_53039000" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"People are focused on giving drugs to Type 2 diabetes, but it's a dietary disease," said study author Dr. Jason Fung, medical director of the Intensive Dietary Management Program in Toronto.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Experts say this clashes with the widely held belief that diabetes is strictly a chronic, irreversible disease -- though Fung said that's been changing in recent years.</div><div class="b5d1cb4d _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px;"><a aria-label="Related Article: What is intermittent fasting, and is it healthy?" aria-disabled="false" class="_0308207a " href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/2016/06/08/health/intermittent-fasting-healthy/index.html" 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aria-disabled="false" class="_0308207a _1e227843 " href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/2016/06/08/health/intermittent-fasting-healthy/index.html" name="Related Article: What is intermittent fasting, and is it healthy?" icon="" target="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Related Article:</span> What is intermittent fasting, and is it healthy?</a></div></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"In general, the concept of reversing or curing diabetes ... is not well-accepted in the medical field," said Dr. Abhinav Diwan, associate professor of medicine, cell biology and physiology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "It is not even a therapeutic goal when people start to treat diabetics."</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/data/statistics-report/index.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a> estimates that 9.4% of Americans -- about 30.3 million people -- have diabetes, and nearly a quarter of those are undiagnosed. <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/type2.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">Ninety to 95%</a> of those cases are Type 2 diabetes. An additional 33.9% of the population, or 84.1 million people, have prediabetes, the agency says.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"Diabetes is the No. 1 cause of kidney failure, lower-limb amputations, and adult-onset blindness," <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/diabetes.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">the CDC says.</a></div><div class="b5d1cb4d _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px;"><a aria-label="Related Article: Is fasting the fountain of youth?" aria-disabled="false" class="_0308207a " href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/10/01/health/fasting-longevity-food-drayer/index.html" name="Related Article: Is fasting the fountain of youth?" icon="" target="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 101, 152); transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="_2a5c0c94" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 0;"><img alt="" class="a8a853a8" sizes="(max-width: 327px) 50vw, 100vw" src="https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/120411012545-empty-plate-story-body.jpg" srcset="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/120411012545-empty-plate-story-body.jpg 300w,//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/120411012545-empty-plate-story-top.jpg 640w" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; height: 162px; border: 0px; width: 288px;"></div></div></a><div class="_49fb7f0e cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(115, 115, 115); font-size: 14px; margin: 12px 0px 20px; line-height: 20px;"><a aria-label="Related Article: Is fasting the fountain of youth?" aria-disabled="false" class="_0308207a _1e227843 " href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/10/01/health/fasting-longevity-food-drayer/index.html" name="Related Article: Is fasting the fountain of youth?" icon="" target="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Related Article:</span> Is fasting the fountain of youth?</a></div></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">In the study, patients followed 24-hour fasts several times a week. They ate only dinner on fasting days but could drink water, coffee and broth throughout. They were all men, ages 40, 52 and 67, who had been diagnosed with diabetes 20, 25 and 10 years prior, respectively.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The participants had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, which has been linked to obesity and develops over years due to a combination of <a href="https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/type-2-diabetes" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">genetics and lifestyle.</a> In this type, the body becomes less responsive to insulin, a hormone it needs to balance glucose in the bloodstream.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">This is different from Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune condition in which the pancreas doesn't produce much, if any, insulin. Fasting for those with Type 1 diabetes "may be unsafe due to the increased risk for hypoglycemia," said Diwan, who was not involved in the new study.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">However, he has researched <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15548627.2017.1368596" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">fasting and diabetes in mice</a>, looking for important clues at the cellular level about how this might work.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">When it comes to this field of research, he said, "these are early days but very exciting." The new report is not a definitive study, he added; it has a small sample size, no control group and limited followup. Existing research in humans is also difficult to compare because it is largely observational, and how to implement fasting hasn't been standardized, Diwan said.</div><div class="b5d1cb4d _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px;"><a aria-label="Related Article: Does fasting on alternate days work? A new study weighs in" aria-disabled="false" class="_0308207a " href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/2017/05/01/health/fasting-weight-loss-obesity-study/index.html" name="Related Article: Does fasting on alternate days work? A new study weighs in" icon="" target="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 101, 152); transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="_2a5c0c94" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 0;"><img alt="" class="a8a853a8" sizes="(max-width: 327px) 50vw, 100vw" src="https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/120411012545-empty-plate-story-body.jpg" srcset="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/120411012545-empty-plate-story-body.jpg 300w,//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/120411012545-empty-plate-story-top.jpg 640w" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; height: 162px; border: 0px; width: 288px;"></div></div></a><div class="_49fb7f0e cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(115, 115, 115); font-size: 14px; margin: 12px 0px 20px; line-height: 20px;"><a aria-label="Related Article: Does fasting on alternate days work? A new study weighs in" aria-disabled="false" class="_0308207a _1e227843 " href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/2017/05/01/health/fasting-weight-loss-obesity-study/index.html" name="Related Article: Does fasting on alternate days work? A new study weighs in" icon="" target="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Related Article:</span> Does fasting on alternate days work? A new study weighs in</a></div></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"It is very clear that people who can lose weight have better blood sugar control ... [and] sometimes can get off insulin if not too advanced in their disease," said Dr. Robert Gabbay, chief medical officer at the Joslin Diabetes Center, a nonprofit research and care center in Boston affiliated with Harvard Medical School.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"The most established example of that are people that have bariatric surgery," he added. "They lose significant amounts of weight, and some of them get off all medications."</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Gabbay, who was not involved in the new report, calls this a "remission" of diabetes rather than "cure" because, "as far as we know, it's still worthwhile having a yearly eye exam, having a screening for kidney disease and nerve damage, even in those people that normalize their blood sugars, because they may be at continued risk."</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"Although, honestly, there aren't enough of those people to know."</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Experts like Fung are calling for more research on this topic, which has not gotten much attention from the broader scientific community.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"Intermittent fasting has been in a hinterland for many, many years. There's been really no data on it," Fung said, adding that his proposals for larger studies on fasting and diabetes have been denied by two Toronto hospitals.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">He said he's seen thousands of patients in his program, and the new report, which took two years to publish and includes only three patients, is part of an ongoing effort to show early evidence and advocate for larger studies.</div><div class="b5d1cb4d _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px;"><a aria-label="Related Article: How to succeed at intermittent fasting" aria-disabled="false" class="_0308207a " href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/03/23/health/intermittent-fasting-food-drayer/index.html" name="Related Article: How to succeed at intermittent fasting" icon="" target="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 101, 152); transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="_2a5c0c94" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 0;"><br></div></div></a><div class="_49fb7f0e cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(115, 115, 115); font-size: 14px; margin: 12px 0px 20px; line-height: 20px;"><a aria-label="Related Article: How to succeed at intermittent fasting" aria-disabled="false" class="_0308207a _1e227843 " href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/03/23/health/intermittent-fasting-food-drayer/index.html" name="Related Article: How to succeed at intermittent fasting" icon="" target="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Related Article:</span> How to succeed at intermittent fasting</a></div></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The goal of no longer needing insulin is not only a health-related goal, Fung said; it could also mean not having to buy these drugs, which are <a href="https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2016.0126" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">ever more costly</a>.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">But without randomized trials, Diwan said, it's tough to say how effective intermittent fasting is, what's the best way to do it and how sustainable it might be in the long run.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">At the very least, "intermittent fasting has been practiced across various cultures," Diwan said, citing his own Hindu culture as an example. "So that tells you right off the bat that it's a doable thing."</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Gabbay said "there's conflicting data out there" on fasting diets and weight loss, including studies suggesting that fasting is <a href="https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.0936" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">no more effective</a> for weight loss and maintenance than calorie restriction, and other research showing how some people <a href="https://cnn.it/2CxsTPJ" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">regain weight.</a></div><div class="_5090cbaa _53039000" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><p class="_95a3e7b8" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Get CNN Health's weekly newsletter</p><hr style="height: 1px; border: 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217);"><div class="d8026447" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px 0px; font-size: 14px;"><div class="_735ae994" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/cnn/resultsarein" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">Sign up here to get <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Results Are In with Dr. Sanjay Gupta</span></a> every Tuesday from the CNN Health team.</div></div></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">None of the men in the study had episodes in which their blood sugar dropped dangerously low -- known as hypoglycemia -- but <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2015-000009" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">other studies</a> on fasting and diabetes have reported this risk. It could increase if people continue to take their usual dose of insulin while fasting, causing their blood sugar levels to plummet, Fung said.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"Clearly, there is need for caution, because diabetic people are prone to hypoglycemic episodes, and hypoglycemia can be fatal," Diwan said. "People do not want to put them themselves at risk by fasting without consulting a doctor."</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Experts say there could be <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5819235/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">other risks to fasting</a>, such as headaches, fatigue, nausea and insomnia. It may also be less safe for some groups of people to fast, including pregnant women and those who take certain medications.</div><div class="_53039000" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Gabbay said the new paper accomplishes its goal of warranting further study, but on its own, it's a success story about just three people -- and one would be "hard-pressed to draw any conclusions from this kind of work."</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">"We always worry when reports of dramatic results are presented, as they may be misinterpreted by people," he said. "In the world of diet and weight loss, things really catch on quickly</div></div></div></div>

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