Consuming meals during a 10-hour window in the daytime could help type 2 diabetes sufferers lower blood sugar, research has found. The small study suggests that a time-restricted eating (TRE) protocol could counteract the negative effects of eating throughout the day by limiting the duration of food intake.
According to researchers, this would help to restore the cycle of daytime eating and prolonged fasting during the evening and night. The study authors are from NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre, the Netherlands, reports PA.
They said: “A daytime 10-hour TRE regimen for three weeks decreases glucose levels and prolongs the time spent in the normal blood sugar range in adults with type 2 diabetes as compared with spreading daily food intake over at least 14 hours. These data highlight the potential benefit of TRE in type 2 diabetes.”
