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A new scientific study has backed up some health claims about eating less. The clinical trial reveals that cutting back on food for just 5 days a month could help prevent or treat age-related illnesses like diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
It’s not trivial to do this kind of study,” says circadian biologist Satchidananda Panda of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California, who wasn’t connected to the research. “What they have done is commendable.”
One of the best known programs, the 5:2 diet, allows you to eat normally for 5 days a week. On each of the other 2 days, you restrict yourself to 500 to 600 calories, about one-fourth of what the average American consumes.
biochemist Valter Longo of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles
Longo’s team reported that mice on the rodent version of the diet lived longer and exhibited other positive effects, such as lowered blood sugar and fewer tumors. They also presented preliminary data suggesting health benefits in humans.
Now, the researchers have completed a randomized clinical trial in which 71 people followed the fasting-mimicking diet for 3 months, while volunteers in the control group didn’t change their eating habits. Overall, the dieters lost an average of 2.6 kilograms (5.7 pounds)
But this blog post isn't about loosing weight, the weight will go down there is no question about that, but the health benefits that you may get from fasting are significant.
From the Documentary "Science of Fasting" by, Sylvie Gilman, and Thierry de Lestrade, followed the patience, doctors and specialists all over the world and recorded the results of fasting in individuals
So why so few know about it and why isn't it used as medicine in hospitals?
The reason why it isn't that popular is because, big pharmacies, non traditional medicine can not make any profits on it. Fasting, has greater health benefits and with no side effects unlike the medicine that is used in hospitals and pharmacies. We as humans do not need to eat that much, we are used to eat every single day, because everybody (normal human) does it, but to skip a meal seams catastrophic...
The energy depletes, only thing you can think of is food, and the more we learn how to become free from this addition the better the life quality gets, the healthier you become.
The Science of Fasting
Amazon Video ~ Sylvie Gilman
Link: http://a.co/apK5Wo9
http://www.businessinsider.com/fasting-diet-ketosis-brain-body-effects-2017-12
Thank you for reading, hope you got more insight of fasting and perhaps you can try something new.
Have you ever tried fasting?
Take care.