Scientists Find A Better Diet For Blood Sugar Balance & Weight Loss

Blood sugar can be hard to control sometimes. It affects our appetite, our weight, and even our mood (ever feel hangry?). We're constantly looking for easy and natural ways to balance blood sugar and regulate those hormones, and a new study may be giving us the key to understanding how we can do just that.

According to researchers at Tel Aviv University, a diet that follows our biological clock could be more beneficial to weight loss and blood sugar balance.

Previously, a traditional diet followed by diabetics to balance blood sugar was called the 6M diet, which consists of six small meals spread throughout the day. For this research, doctors proposed a new meal plan called the 3M diet, which was comprised of one starch-heavy breakfast early in the morning, followed by a substantial lunch and a light dinner. This diet was chosen to better align with our biological clock, which suggests the inclination to eat more in the morning while fasting later at night. 

The study followed a group of people with type 2 diabetes, randomly assigning each participant to follow either the 3M or 6M diet for three months. Over the three months, researchers measured their weight, blood glucose levels, appetite, and gene expression. 

The study yielded better results across the table from the 3M diet group. Participants showed increased weight loss, decreased appetite, and a decrease in daily insulin levels. 

Now that breakfast has been identified as a specific meal of importance, the researchers plan to delve more into specific breakfast foods and how different proteins in those foods affects blood sugar and insulin levels.