If you are like many people I know, after Thanksgiving you feel terrible about the food choices you made and think you have totally blown your “diet.” Some will decide to take matters into their own hands immediately and get back on track. Others may start the spiral downward till New Years and let all their hard work for the year be sabotaged. And then there are those who may have heard about new research on intermittent fasting and think that’s the way to undo the holiday damage.In an unpublished study of 26 obese adults, those who fasted completely every other day and ate with no restrictions the rest of the time lost about the same amount of weight in two months as those who didn’t fast at all. But four months later, after patients were off the intervention, those who had the initial “intermittent fasting” intervention had dropped more pounds and had greater improvements in memory than those on a standard diet. [Tweet this.]Study author William Troy Donahoo, Ph.D., said at a conference that the difference in weight loss may have been due to people continuing to fast after the study ended, or that fasting somehow changes your metabolism.So should we all jump on this bandwagon

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The results of the study at hand clearly suggest: There is no single ideal type of exercise; plus: What’s optimal may change when your health / physique changes”You got to exercise!” When the average overweight patient hears these words coming out of the mouth of his doctor, the type of exercise he usually will be thinking about is “classic” steady state cardio training on a treadmill, elliptical, stairmaster, or ergometer. It’s the textbook approach and still the predominant form of exercise in most of the pertinent studies on nutrition + exercise interventions that are designed to help overweight / obese individuals shed weight and improve their health.Among the (usually) non-obese and rarely insulin resistant members of the health and fitness community this type of “cardio training” (LISS) has however gotten quite a bad rep as of late. More and more trainers suggest that it may bet better to lift weights and do the occasional HIIT sessions for everyone – irrespective of your body weight, health and training status. If we put some faith into the results of a recently published study from the University of Massachusetts this could eventually turn out to be another unwarranted over-generalization that disregards the very specific needs of lean vs. obese and insulin sensitive vs.

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In November 2012, a new study reported that green tea combined with resistance training significantly impacted body fat, waist circumference and muscle strength better than either intervention alone. Previous research has shown that green tea has thermogenic and antiobesity properties. Thirty-six overweight or obese women ate a planned diet for four weeks.

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Intermittent Fasting-Update 19 Comments Friday, December 28th, 2007 Apologies for the spotty posting the past month. The gym has been very busy which is great but it has really cut into my writing time. Add some CrossFit related travel, the holidays and some other fun and things have thoroughly ground to a halt!I want to thank Shaf and Brad for sending some pdf’s I needed. I will link to the abstracts or full text article as available.Hot topics in nutritional research are the interrelated concepts of meal frequency (intermittent fasting) and caloric restriction

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