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Different types of fasting
How fasting can improve your overall health
How to prepare for a fast
How the body uses and stores food
Time-restricted eating gives our body a chance to use up fat. When we eat, our body uses carbohydrates for energy. When we don't need them right away, they get stored in the liver as glycogen or converted into fat.
When we finish eating for the day, our body first use glucose from the carbohydrates we've eaten before moving on to the stored carbohydrates, or glycogen, in the liver. Glycogen lasts for eight hours after we've stopped eating. After that, our body begins to tap into its stored fat.
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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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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 has many health benefits, including losing weight.
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How to practice time-restricted eating
- Only consume water during your fasting window. It means no coffee, tea, or herbal tea.
- Drink only plain hot water after waking up as it can give you the same soothing feeling as coffee.
- If you have to be very alert in the morning, it's OK to have black coffee, but don't ad...
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More research is needed on intermittent fasting
While the time-restricted eating holds promise, there is a need for more research.
- There haven't been studies with humans that lasted longer than a few months.
- The gut microbiome actually changes in mice that restrict their eating to an eight-hour window, so they digest nutr...
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Benefits of time-restricted eating
- Subjects in a study reported experiencing better sleep, more energy in the mornings, and less hunger at bedtime.
- In a study of men at risk for type-2 diabetes, after one week of restricting eating to a nine-hour window, the men showed a lower spike in blood glucose after a test mea...
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Switching modes
When we shorten the period for eating and extend the time for fasting, we stay in the fat-burning mode of our metabolism.
The moment we eat food, even coffee with a bit of sugar and milk, we switch to the other mode and start burning carbohydrates while storing glycogen an...
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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.
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Storing energy for building
Glucose is the primary "fuel" that produce energy.
- Fats are packed into small units called lipoproteins and stored as body fat for later use.
- Proteins are broken into amino acids
A metabolic shift
It can take 10 to 12 hours to use up calories in the liver before your body changes over to use the stored fat.
After meals, glucose is used for energy, while fat is stored in fat tissue. During fasts, once glucose is depleted, stored fat is broken down and used for energy.
Body Weight
It's a result of the amount of energy we release into our bodies (catabolism) minus the amount of energy our bodies use up (anabolism). The excess energy is stored either as fat or glycogen in the muscles and liver, with fat being the most caloric dense of the two.
Although becoming ...
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