"An Objective Look on Intermittent Fasting"

[Rahf]

Interesting read for people that have been thinking about trying out IF or other types of fasting. It is definitely worth a read if you feel like trying out intermittent fasting. Kitosho has mentioned it as a possible recommendation for people no?

http://alanaragon.com/an-objective-look-at-intermittent-fasting.html

[compleks]

Nice one.

Thank Rahf

[Ashtar]

Intermittant fasting has done wonder for me, I lost 40lbs doing it.

[Kitosho]

this article seemed a bit far from objective; a significant amount of research has been left out or dismissed casually

§ Improvements in insulin sensitivity, glucose tolerance (except in women undergoing ADF), bodyweight/bodyfat, blood pressure, blood lipids, and heart rate are commonly cited benefits of IF & CR.

§ All of the above benefits can be achieved by exercise, minus the downsides of fasting.

§ IF and CR have both been found to have neuroprotective effects by increasing BDNF levels.

§ A growing body of research shows that exercise can also increase BDNF, and the degree of effect appears to be intensity-dependent.



"if can do some things, maybe, but so can exercise, so why bother? blah blah"



i need to clarify that when i suggest things i assume (mistakenly) that the people i'm recommending to know everything that i know about nutrition, exercise, and evolutionary biology

IF is difficult in that it banks on certain food selections and specific timing; it's not a haphazard protocol like it is being painted as, but all the reported benefits exist and have been documented when it is used properly

it is not necessary but it is interesting and it is useful and this article basically seems to say "hunger isn't fun and kids who don't eat breakfast have a tendency to be fat (because they're kids and they eat fucking skittles and mountain dew at every meal)."

my extreme biases aside, this article was still unimpressive and inconclusive

[rock_10]

This thread is good: http://www.mindandmuscle.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=28517

Lots of studies talked about in there, as well as personal experiences.