Intermittent Fasting — Does It Really Work? – Top.me

January 28, 2014
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Few things taught in the Bible have seen such an uptake recently as fasting. Open the pages of any fitness and health magazine and you’re bound to find the words “Intermittent Fasting” somewhere. So what is this all about?tl;dr – click to read summaryResearch shows that Intermittent Fasting has effects on insulin levels and the production of growth hormones in the body. Therefore, it may have long term health benefits, although no research shows significant different to other type of diets with reduced calorie intake.Pregnant women and Diabetes patients should avoid Intermittent Fasting. First, let’s look at how Wikipedia defines Intermittent Fasting:Intermittent fasting (IF) is a pattern of eating that alternates between periods of fasting (usually meaning consumption of water and sometimes low-calorie drinks such as black coffee) and non-fasting.So this means that Intermittent Fasting is not a diet per se, but an eating pattern, designed to improve health and longevity.

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A Series of Popular Press Articles on Intermittent Fasting – Fight Aging!

January 3, 2014
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Serious discussion about calorie restriction and intermittent fasting in the popular press is comparatively rare – anything that involves changes of diet will quickly be buried by idiocy as a general rule, if not by the author of the piece, then shortly thereafter. Dieting is just one of those topics in which rationality seems to flee the building whenever it comes up.Both calorie restriction and intermittent fasting are shown to extend life and greatly improve health in mice and many other species, but they might not operate through exactly the same mechanisms. Intermittent fasting in which calorie intake is maintained at the same level as non-fasting rodents has been shown to produce some extension of life and health benefits in studies for example – equally other studies suggest that this might not be the case. For my money I’d wager the bulk of the effect is calorie based: intermittent fasting tends to result in a lower overall calorie intake, and we know that calorie intake has a large effect on health and longevity in comparison to everything else that you can try in mice.There is a lot more research into calorie restriction than exists for intermittent fasting strategies such as alternate day fasting. You should bear that in mind when reading around the topic.

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Intermittent Fasting and the Fast Diet | Frameblog

May 28, 2013
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Tue 28-05-2013Intermittent Fasting and the Fast DietThe question that I am being asked more than any other at the moment is ‘what do you think about the fast diet?’ For anyone not in the know, the fast diet (also know as the 5:2 diet) is where you fast for two days out of every week. On your fast days women are allowed 500 calories and men are allowed 600 calories. For the rest of the week you can eat and drink as you please.The diet rose to popularity based on this BBC panorama episode called Eat, Fast and Live Longer. The presenter has then taken this further by creating a diet book, a cookbook and website. Its popularity is now huge and fully deserves the title of ‘the new Atkins diet’

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