There’s now scientific evidence to suggest there are real health benefits to fasting — and they’re not just related to …
Intermittent fasting was one of the most talked-about diet trends in 2017, and now new research from the University of Surrey suggests that following such a diet could have real health benefits. In a study published in the British Journal of Nutrition, researchers assigned 27 overweight participants to either the 5:2 diet or a daily calorie-restriction diet, and told to them to lose 5% of their weight. The study aimed to look at the effects of the 5:2 on the body’s ability to metabolize fat and glucose following a meal and compared it to the effects of weight loss achieved by a daily calorie-restriction diet. The participants on the 5:2 followed the regime of eating normally for five days and restricting their calories to 600 calories on their two “fasting days.” Meanwhile those on the daily diet were required to eat 600 calories less each day than their estimated requirements for weight maintenance — women ate about 1,400 calories and men ate about 1,900 calories a day. It’s important to note the study was relatively small and that 20% of each participant group dropped out because they either “could not tolerate the diet or were unable to attain their 5% weight loss target.”
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Any time a diet is introduced the biggest challenge is the settle in time. If the participants do not have to settle into the diet, and this takes several weeks, the diet will most likely fail.
This statement is not to jinx anybody but to alert those that are going to start a new diet.
The fasting diets might befit, but even the article states that they are so drastic most participants could not handle it.
Any change, eating or otherwise requires a curation time. Time to settle in and teach the body the new normal.
The new normal should be a slight decrease in food volume and that it should not ring alarms of deprivation.
If the alarms start to signal, hunger will fallow, and we are lost after that.
Slow changes and this means any changes will create a better result.
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