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A diet guru explains why you should eat dinner at 2pm
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Problematic Dietary Guidelines
- Dietary guidelines, which came in the 1970s, instructed people to cut the fat from their diet, and increase the carbohydrates. Eating more of bread and sugar has contributed sign...
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Limit Your Eating
Several new studies are claiming that restricting our meals, and not eating post-afternoon, has some remarkable benefits.
Limiting our eating has produced miraculous results in these studies,...
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Last Meal At 2 pm
Eating in your last meal of the day in the afternoon results in a 16 to 18 hour fast, which can significantly boost your health, according to research.
The tests also show that it is not hard...
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What Intermittent fasting is
Intermittent fasting is based on the idea that when you reduce your calorie intake for limited stretches of time, your body will use its stored fat for energy. Intermittent fasting...
Time-restricted eating
One intermittent fasting method is known as time-restricted eating: A person consumes all of their calories for the day within an 8-to-12-hour window. You might eat breakfast at 8 AM, including coffee, and finishing your dinner by 6 PM.
In an experiment, two sets of mice were fed the same diet and ate the same number of calories a day. One set had access to food for 24 hours, and the other group had access for only 8 hours. After 18 weeks, the group that could eat all hours showed signs of insulin resistance and had liver damage. The mice who ate in an 8-hour window did not have the condition and weighed 28 percent less than the other group.
Food at the right time
Many of the human body’s processes are tied to our circadian rhythms.
Eating food at the right time can nurture us, and healthy food at the wrong time can be junk food because it gets stored as fat instead of being used as fuel.
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Intermittent fasting
Benefits of Intermittent Fasting
- It makes your day simpler: fewer meals= less stressing about what you'll eat.
- It helps you live longer: you get the benefits of a longer life without the hassle of starving.
- Still up for debate, but intermittent fasting may reduce the risk of cancer.
- It is much easier than dieting, once you get over the idea that you need to eat all the time.
Different Fasting Schedules
- Daily Intermittent Fasting: 16–hour fast followed by an 8–hour eating period.
- Weekly Intermittent Fasting: One of the best ways to get started with it - do it once per week.
- Alternate Day Intermittent Fasting: incorporates longer fasting periods on alternating days throughout the week.
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Fasting....
...is the voluntary withholding of food for spiritual, health, or other reasons.
Food is easily available, but you choose not to eat it. This can be for any period of time, from...
Intermittent fasting for weight loss
When we fast, Insulin levels fall, signaling the body to start burning stored energy as no more is coming through food. Blood glucose falls, so the body must now pull glucose out of storage to burn for energy.
In essence, intermittent fasting allows the body to use its stored energy.
Health benefits of intermittent fasting
- Weight and body fat loss
- Lowered blood insulin and sugar levels
- Possibly reversal of type 2 diabetes
- Possibly improved mental clarity and concentration
- Possibly increased energy
- Possibly increased growth hormone, at least in the short term
- Possibly an improved blood cholesterol profile
- Possibly a reduction in the risk of Alzheimer’s disease
- Possibly longer life
- Possibly activation of cellular cleansing by stimulating autophagy
- Possibly reduction of inflammation