--- title: Five Best Ideas: Fasting Could Unlock a Cure for Diabetes description: Fasting could unlock a diabetes cure, make the House of Representatives bigger and more. canonical: https://time.com/4681752/fasting-could-unlock-a-cure-for-diabetes/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-24T17:00:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:02.525Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Fasting Could Unlock a Cure for Diabetes og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4681752/fasting-could-unlock-a-cure-for-diabetes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Fasting Could Unlock a Cure for Diabetes twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Fasting Could Unlock a Cure for Diabetes by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 24, 2017 5:00 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 24, 2017 5:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**Could fasting unlock a diabetes cure?**](http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39070183 "undefined") By James Gallagher at the _BBC_ **2\.** [**Make the House of Representatives more democratic — by making it much bigger.**](http://theweek.com/articles/681351/america-needs-more-congressmen-hundreds-hundreds-more-congressmen "undefined") By David Faris in the _Week_ **3\.** [**Promising vaccines against Zika are ready for testing. Now we wait for the next outbreak.**](http://khn.org/news/sprint-to-find-zika-vaccine-could-hinge-on-summer-outbreaks/ "undefined") By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez at _Kaiser Health News_ **4\.** [**To bring back lost low-skilled jobs, here’s a better plan than protectionism.**](https://www.thechicagocouncil.org/blog/world-cents/dont-blame-trade-low-skilled-job-losses-will-not-be-solved-protectionism "undefined") By Alexander Hitch at the _Chicago Council on Global Affairs_ **5\.** [**This is a smart way to keep the pressure on Iran.**](https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column/network-take/history-what-works-iran "undefined") By Michael J. Morell in the _Cipher Brief_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4681752/fasting-could-unlock-a-cure-for-diabetes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4681752/fasting-could-unlock-a-cure-for-diabetes/"},"headline":"Fasting Could Unlock a Cure for Diabetes","datePublished":"2017-02-24T17:00:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:02.525Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4681752/fasting-could-unlock-a-cure-for-diabetes/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Iran","Jobs","Innovation","House of Representatives","diabetes","Zika"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4681752/fasting-could-unlock-a-cure-for-diabetes/","name":"Fasting Could Unlock a Cure for Diabetes"}}]}] ```