I stumbled across intermittent fasting (IF for short) by accident. In fact, I’d been using a form of IF for several years before I realized there was a name for it.It started in 1999, when I got into the habit of going to the gym first thing in the morning before eating anything. I’d been reading Body-for-LIFE by Bill Phillips, and “fasted cardio” was one of the things he recommended.
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Did you also go totally over the top with food and drinks during the holiday season? Many people did and then made a new years resolution to clean up their life style. The ambition to lose weight, stop smoking and drinking, start running and become the Mr or Ms Beach of the Year is as high as Mount Everest. At least until around now, mid-Jan, when reality hits and getting up earlier to prepare a healthy breakfast or getting out the door for a long walk or hitting the gym suddenly seems harder than climbing Mount Everest. Suddenly the extra time people found in the first half of January is gone again and before we’re into February most people are back to old habits.Any surprises here
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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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A Series of Popular Press Articles on Intermittent Fasting – Fight Aging!
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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About the benefits of Intermittent fastingA report by Peter Bowes from BBC News in Los Angeles today describes how his body responded to a fasting diet which he followed as part of a clinical trial. Each month he would eat very little for five days in a row. He not only felt more alert during these fasting days but he also saw improvements in his blood pressure.“Clinical tests showed that during the diet cycles my systolic blood pressure dropped by about 10%, while the diastolic number remained about the same.
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PETER BOWES: Reasons to be “excited” about intermittent fasting PagesHome About Fitbit Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Research WELCOME! PETER Los Angeles, California, United States I am a British-born, naturalized American, living in California. Based in Los Angeles, I work as a correspondent for BBC television, radio and websites. I post here about what I’m doing, the stories I cover and anything else that moves me.
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PETER BOWES: Reasons to be "excited" about intermittent fasting
By David H. Rahm, M.D.Q: Over the past 20 years I’ve gained 15 pounds and I’d like to lose it. I’ve heard that the Fast Diet is not only effective for weight loss but weight maintenance. Is this just the latest fad diet or does the Fast Diet really work?
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Save and Share: 84220Eat for 8 hours, then no eating for 16 hoursAccording to Hugh Jackman, the 16-8 Intermittent Fasting method of eating is “all the rage“. This system of eating is easy on paper – you eat all your meals in an 8 hour window, and then “fast” for the next 16 hours. Does this system really work?
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We’ve had some great feedback following our last post about HIIT, and one or two interesting queries about it too. HIIT has had some rather controversial coverage in recent months. A BBC documentary implied that just 3 minutes of HIIT exercise a day is enough to change your life and get you fit and healthy.And then there was the news that Andrew Marr attributed his recent stroke to a high intensity workout on a rowing machine (combined with over-work).“I did the terrible thing of believing what I read in the papers,” Marr joked, “Because the newspapers were saying that what we must all do is take very very intensive exercise in short bursts.”If it looks too good to be true…When I was about 11 years old I received a letter informing me that I had been randomly selected as the lucky recipient of either a new video player, a holiday, or a cash prize of £500. Of course, it was nothing more than a vacuous time-share scam, but the 11-year-old me was not to know this, and I was naturally excited. When my dad got home from work he set me straight, and there and then I learned one of life’s most valuable lessons, “if it looks too good to be true, it probably is”This lesson has stood me in good stead. I’m proud to describe myself as an open-minded cynic.So naturally, the notion that people could simply skip the long miles and get fit doing just a few minutes of HIIT was never going to sit right with meStart at the bottom and work your way up…“Advocates of high-intensity interval training say doing a few short bursts of exercise each week – four 30-second sprints on an exercise bike, for example – is a good way to keep fit.” (Quote from the BBC article.)There’s a key word in there, and it’s “keep”. It doesn’t say “get”.Common sense says that if you’re unfit, you start gently. You progressively work your body harder as it starts to respond to the new exercise regime. I can’t believe anyone would advocate getting stuck in the high intensity stuff from the start. It’s an accident waiting to happen.I’m not a medical expert. I’m not even a fitness expert, I’m just an enthusiastic amateur. But the notion that you can transform your life and “get” fit with just 3 minutes of HIIT exercise a day is one of those “too good to be true” notions. At least that’s my take on it.Train smart…As you’ll know from my last blog, I’m a huge advocate of HIIT. The philosophy behind it seems pretty logical to this cynic, plus it’s worked for me!
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MELBOURNE (ANI) – Starving yourself every other day could be the key to losing weight and lowering your risk of cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s, scientists have claimed.Fat loss pills and strenuous exercise could be a thing of the past, with a new diet claiming to improve your waistline, as well as extend your life and keep wrinkles at bay.The 5:2 diet – also known as intermittent fasting – requires two non-consecutive days of “fasting” each week, when the dieter is to consume no more than 500 calories if they are a woman and 600 if they are a man, the Daily Telegraph reported.There are no dietary restrictions for the remaining five days, which are often referred to as the “feeding” days.The diet has gone viral following the BBC documentary ‘Eat, Fast and Live Longer’ by doctor and journalist Michael Mosley, which screened in the UK last year.It is expected to create a similar craze when it screens in Australia on SBS on April 22.The program follows Dr Mosley on an intermittent fasting investigation.In six weeks following the diet, he lost over 6kg and 25 percent of his body fat.His cholesterol dropped and his blood glucose, which he described as “borderline diabetic”, went back to normal.Dr Mosley also found that fasting lowered levels of IGF-1 in the body – an insulin-growth hormone – which in turn lowered blood pressure and the risks of cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes.There are now 5:2 groups on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, as well as blogs dedicated to the diet. (ANI) Print PDFComments commentsPowered by Facebook Comments
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