Intermittent fasting: The good things it did to my body | The Muslim …

January 3, 2014
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Intermittent fasting: The good things it did to my body Posted by Amtul Q Farhat BBC:Many of the changes in my body when I took part in the clinical trial of an intermittent fasting diet, were no surprise. Eating very little for five days each month, I lost weight, and I felt hungry. I also felt more alert a lot of the time, though I tired easily. But there were other effects too that were possibly more important.During each five-day fasting cycle, when I ate about a quarter the average person’s diet, I lost between 2kg and 4kg (4.4-8.8lbs) but before the next cycle came round, 25 days of eating normally had returned me almost to my original weight.But not all consequences of the diet faded so quickly.“What we are seeing is the maintenance of some of the effects even when normal feeding resumes,” explains Dr Valter Longo, director of USC’s Longevity institute-MOREAll religions of world practice some kind of fastingShare this now!FacebookGoogleLinkedInRedditDiggStumbleUponEmailPrint Posted by Amtul Q Farhat on January 3, 2014.

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Postdocs in CS, IR, Machine Learning, Data Analysis at HIIT …

September 1, 2013
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Many postdoc positions at Aalto U. and U. of Helsinki in Algorithms, Bioinformatics, Human-Computer Interaction, Information retrieval, Logic, Machine Learning, Networks, and Statistical Data Analysis. Apply by Sep 30.At: HIIT Location: Helsinki, Finland Web: www.hiit.fi/postdoc-call-2013 Application deadline Sept 30, 2013, 3:00 p.m

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Which method of intermittent fasting do you prefer? – Nutrition …

February 28, 2013
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It seems the benefits of condensing your food to the morning are circadian in nature, but it’s harder to resist eating in the evening, there’s an obvious social restriction to avoiding dinner, and some find it hard to sleep when hungry. It seems the benefits of condensing your food to the evening are better hunger management, social acceptance, and perhaps sleep (if not eating too late), but this seems to work against our circadian biology to some extent. The benefits of splitting into breakfast and dinner seem to be a trade off of the above, while avoiding afternoon drowsiness, and not taking too much time between food for those who comfortably go 16+ hours.All seem to have some benefit from autophagy and “time away from food.” Of course this assumes a two meal pattern, though there’s a lot of overlap with the one large extended “meal” over a similar number of hours. I think three meals with 5-6 hours between them (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) could be quite a bit more beneficial than snacking, but I’m then wondering if any additional benefits would be gained from removing one of the meals that are worth the downsides? Perhaps the weekly fasting is a bargain along this spectrum?My thoughts are generally split into 1) What would be the most appropriate method to follow given research findings and our biology, and 2) which is more practical given our actual hunger and social restrictions?

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New Intermittent Fasting Weight Loss Obesity Study | Weight Loss …

February 11, 2013
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New Intermittent Fasting Weight Loss Obesity StudyAmazon.com Widgets In a paper published May 17 in Cell Metabolism, scientists from Salk’s Regulatory Biology Laboratory reported that mice limited to eating during an 8-hour period are healthier than mice that eat freely throughout the day, regardless of the quality and content of their diet. The study sought to determine whether obesity and metabolic diseases result from a high-fat diet or from disruption of metabolic cycles. “It’s a dogma that a high-fat diet leads to obesity and that we should eat frequently when we are awake,” says Satchidananda Panda, an associate professor in the Regulatory Biology Laboratory and senior author of the paper. “Our findings, however, suggest that regular eating times and fasting for a significant number of hours a day might be beneficial to our health.” Panda’s team fed two sets of mice, which shared the same genes, gender and age, a diet comprising 60 percent of its calories from fat (like eating potato chips and ice-cream for all your meals).

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Advocating Intermittent Fasting – Fight Aging!

January 29, 2013
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29 Jan 2013 Advocating Intermittent Fasting Permalink|View Comments (1)|Post Comment|Share|Posted by ReasonLoading…This pop-sci piece extols the virtues of intermittent fasting, though the author gives it weight over calorie restriction that it doesn’t merit at this time. The evidence is much stronger for the benefits of calorie restriction, as it has been studied more extensively. The results for extended longevity in laboratory animals due to intermittent fasting remain mixed, though it certainly seems to produce health benefits:One of the most important studies in this area was conducted just last year at Salk’s Regulatory Biology Laboratory. In an experiment, biologist Satchidananda Panda and colleagues restricted the feeding of mice to – conveniently enough – an 8-hour period each day

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Why you should starve yourself a little bit each day

January 28, 2013
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S We’ve been told since we were children that we need to eat three square meals a day. But new research shows that we don’t need to be eating throughout the course of the day. And in fact, it might even be undermining our health. These insights have given rise to what’s known as “intermittent fasting” — the daily restriction of meals and caloric intake. Here’s why some health experts believe you should starve yourself just a little bit each day.

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