每周禁食一天

本周，遗传学家弗朗西斯.阿什克罗夫特说道，我们每个人应该或者尝试每周禁食一天。

  

  

 他说道”全世界3.6亿人口罹患2型糖尿病,每周禁食一天的建议针对的是发达国家“

2型糖尿病毫无益处，它大大增加糖尿病性心脏病、中风、失明、肾衰及糖尿病足截肢风险，每7秒钟就有一人死于糖尿病。单单在英国，光治疗糖尿病每个小时就会消耗掉一百万英镑，已经到了令人吃惊的地步，几乎占了国家保健预算的10%。

   

 

近年来，肥胖人群的增加导致糖尿病患者的爆炸性增长，解决这一问题的最佳途径是保持合理的体重。

我们都知道多运动、少吃的道理，但是我们大多人没有找到简便的计算卡路里及合理饮食方法。

禁食简单、简便，而且在多种文化中有着悠久的传统。

 禁食前让你的医生进行检查并补充充足的水分显然而且重要的，每周禁食一天，会让我们身心健康、更加长寿。

Don’t eat one day a week

This week geneticist Frances Ashcroft says that everyone should give up eating for a day a week.

“My bright idea is for those in the developed world to fast one day a week. Three hundred and thirty six million people worldwide now have type 2 diabetes.

This is not good because it increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure and amputation.It causes one death every seven seconds. In the UK alone we spend a staggering million pounds an hour in treating the disease – almost 10% of the healthcare budget.

The recent explosion in type 2 diabetes is driven by the obesity epidemic and the best way to solve the problem is for everyone to maintain a sensible weight.

We all know what we have to do – eat less and exercise more. But most of us don’t find it easy to calculate calories or eat the right sized portion of food.

Fasting is cheap, simple and has a long tradition in many cultures.

Obviously it is important to check with your doctor before doing so and to take plenty of fluids, but fasting for one day each week may make us healthier, happier and longer lived.”