Don't Make These Mistakes When Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting has many benefits as long as you don't make these mistakes.

Intermittent fasting is popular among the health-conscious because it offers many benefits: It promotes fat and weight loss, improves insulin sensitivity, and boosts immunity. But before you try intermittent fasting, avoid these 7 common mistakes like not tracking your calorie intake so your efforts don’t go to waste. Read more

Intermittent Fasting: Transformational Technique

This introduction to intermittent focuses on its benefits to females in particular.

How the 5:2 Diet Fights Cancer, Diabetes, and Dementia

Dr. Michael Mosley reveals how his 5:2 diet fights cancer, diabetes, and even dementia.

This Sunday, in You magazine, I am unveiling the latest version of my 5:2 diet – the simplest I’ve ever devised, with delicious new recipes.

The core principle is the same: cut down to 800 calories a day for two days a week on so-called Fast Days and eat a balanced, Mediterranean-style diet for the other five. But now there’s a clever twist.

The calorie-controlled dishes we have created use no more than five main ingredients, meaning Fast Days are easier than ever to shop and prepare for. Read more

The Secret Health Weapon of One of the NFL's Most Fit Quarterrbacks

Redskins quarterback Alex Smith has embrace time-restricted eating to cut his already low body fat percentage in half.

In the days and weeks following the Kansas City Chiefs’ brutal 18-16 home playoff loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in January 2017, Alex Smith looked in the mirror for ways to improve.

Smith, then the Chiefs’ starting quarterback, had been told after the season by coach Andy Reid that he’d get at least one more year to lead the Chiefs, even though the team would explore drafting a young quarterback (which it did). What was left unsaid — but was obvious to Smith — was that after four years in Kansas City, Year 5 would be put up or shut up time.

So with that in mind, he took his workouts to another level. Read more

The Beginner's Guide to Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting may help you live a longer and healthier life, says James Clear. Get started with his beginner's guide.

I have been intermittent fasting for over one year.

I skip breakfast each day and eat two meals, the first around 1pm and the second around 8pm. Then, I fast for 16 hours until I start eating again the next day at 1pm.

Surprisingly, since I’ve started intermittent fasting I’ve increased muscle mass (up 10 pounds from 205 to 215), decreased body fat (down 3% from 14% to 11%), increased explosiveness (set a personal best with a clean and jerk of 253 pounds a few months back), and decreased the amount of time I’ve spent training (down from 7.5 hours per week to 2.5 hours per week).

In other words, I’m stronger, leaner, and more explosive even though I go to the gym less and eat less. Read more

Only 12 Minutes Exercise Needed to Lose Weight Faster

Twelves minutes of exercise daily is all you need to maximize your weight loss.

When Dr Michael Mosley launched the Fast Diet two years ago, he was confident that it was a great way to lose weight and improve health.

But even he could not have been prepared for how the diet would take off, with hundreds of thousands of people around the globe successfully losing weight and transforming their vitality and wellbeing.

While the basics haven’t changed — the aim is still to cut calories by three-quarters on two days of the week and eat normally the rest of the time — this week he and his co-author, Mimi Spencer, launch an exciting new Fast Diet book. Read more

How to Lose Weight Without Diets or Drugs

Want to lose weight? A new study suggests eating all your food within an eight-hour window and NEVER snacking at night.

Eating only within an eight-hour window each day could help you shed weight, a study has found.

Limiting the times you eat could reverse obesity and reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. And it doesn’t even matter whether you have fatty or sugary foods. The eight-hour limit seems to undo the harm done by an unhealthy diet. Read more

Skipping Breakfast Is Good for You

Dr. Joseph Mercola says skipping breakfast is good for you - and for more reasons than just weight loss.

Contrary to popular belief, breakfast is not the most important meal of the day. In fact, omitting breakfast, as part of an intermittent fasting schedule, can have many important health benefits, from improving your insulin/leptin sensitivity to helping your body more effectively burn fat for fuel.

Longer bouts of fasting have also been shown to have potent health benefits, including the regeneration of your immune system, as demonstrated in recent research. Read more

Rev Up Your Fat-Burning

To rev up your fat-burning, avoid doing this one thing before lunch.

Is it a good idea to “starve” yourself just a little bit each day? The evidence suggests that yes, avoiding eating around the clock could have a very beneficial impact on your health and longevity.

What we’re talking about here is generally referred to as intermittent fasting, which involves timing your meals to allow for regular periods of fasting. Read more

The Real-Life Fountain of Youth

Joseph Mercola reveals how intermittent fasting and exercise keep your body young.

... Exercise is one of the “golden tickets” to preventing disease and slowing the aging process.

One reason for this is because exercise is one of the most effective ways to regain insulin and leptin sensitivity and reverse insulin and leptin-resistance, which is a key to staying healthy as you get older.

But another reason why exercise is sometimes regarded as a real-life fountain of youth is because, when done intensely, it boosts your body's natural production of human growth hormone (HGH), a synergistic, foundational biochemical that addresses the serious muscle loss and atrophy that typically occurs with aging.

Intermittent fasting has many of the same benefits, including dramatically boosting HGH and optimizing insulin- and leptin sensitivity, which I’ll discuss more toward the end of this article. Read more

Running on Empty: Does Fasting Help or Hurt?

Intermittent fasting is just taking times of fasting and working them into your lifestyle. This can be either daily or a couple times a week. The Los Angeles Times reports that science is beginning to confirm its benefits.

Something about the way Americans eat isn't working -- and hasn't been for a long time.

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Taking that inclination into account, some people are adopting an unusual solution to overeating. Rather than battling temptation in grocery stores, restaurants and their own kitchens, they simply don't eat. At least not at certain times of the day or specific days of the week.

Called intermittent fasting, this rather stark approach to weight control appears to be supported by science, not to mention various religious and cultural practices around the globe. The practice is a way to become more circumspect about food, its adherents say. But it also seems to yield the benefits of calorie restriction, which may ultimately reduce the risk of some diseases and even extend life. Read more