Posted on 08/18/2021 1:14:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An intermittent fasting diet could help protect older people from falls and other injuries by building up their muscles, a study has discovered.
Intermittent fasting, also known as time-restricted eating, could also be a cost-efficient intervention to prevent type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease, and liver cancer, a team from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California says. Fasting for a longer period could also better protect against infectious diseases like COVID-19 and even save people from dying of sepsis.
Intermittent fasting is a dietary regimen that’s growing in popularity. The diet holds people to eating between an eight-hour window and could have multiple health benefits besides weight loss. Researchers fed a high-fat, high-sugar diet to mice from two different age groups — equivalent to 20 and 42-year-old humans.
The team ran tests and compared the outcomes of time-restricted eating (TRE) on fatty liver disease, glucose regulation, muscle mass, performance and endurance, and sepsis survival rates. Researchers also worked at night to match the animals’ circadian clocks, working with night vision goggles and specialized lighting.
Regardless of age, sex or weight loss, TRE strongly protected against fatty liver disease. Estimates show that up to 20 percent of U.S. adults have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, where there are small amounts of fat in their livers. This can lead to serious liver damage, including cirrhosis, over more time passes.
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Oral glucose tolerance tests given to mice after 16 hours of fasting indicated that intermittent fasting was associated with a lower increase in blood glucose and a faster return to normal blood sugar levels in both young and middle-aged males, with a significant improvement in glucose tolerance in young and middle-aged females. Similarly, middle-aged mice on TRE were able to restore normal blood sugar levels more efficiently than control mice, who had food available at all times.
The researchers also found that intermittent fasting may protect both males and females from sepsis-induced death. This is a particular danger in ICUs, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Keeps them from sticking a fork in their eye…
“More than weight loss: Intermittent fasting may help protect older adults from injury”
Especially when one’s mate looks at the other and says “Are you getting fa??”
Intermittent fasting is easy. Stop eating about by 7pm and wait about 12 to 14 hours. Skip breakfast. Have a cup or two of coffee in the morning.
It’s best to adjust your diet as well. At a minimum, eliminate oils like canola, soy bean, peanut, etc. (Animal days, butter, olive oil, and palm oil are okay) Also reduce to a minimum sugar and refund carbs.
🍩 The Doughnut Is The Killer Food 🍩
“animal fats”, not “days”
Basically, it’s good to stay hungry. It’s what we’re built for.
Over the long span of human existence, being well fed on a regular basis is the exception, not the norm.
🍩 The Doughnut Is The Killer Food 🍩
Are you sure? I thought nuts were considered part of a healthy diet.
Next thing you know my other favorite food group, bacon, will be labeled not good.
My 8 hour fast is while I’m sleeping.
Bacon is processed and increases colon cancer by 18%
I love it but trying to stay clear
“Stop eating about by 7pm and wait about 12 to 14 hours.”
That’s what I do anyway because I sleep so much. (??)
Its easy. I just skipped breakfast. I stop eating at 6 pm...water only.... at Bfast, I have my 3 cups of coffee and eat at 12 or 1. Its not that bad. Once a month I try to go 24 hours +, but should do that once a week.
I tried intermittent fasting. Didnt do a thing for me. I finally figured out that’s because I was more or less doing it anyway. Was just the way I ate. So I went to one meal a day. Worked like magic. I eat whatever I want. Even dessert occasionally and have lost 45 lbs slowly but surely. I inspired my cousin with my weight loss and she started it. So far she’s lost 20 lbs. Now it’s just the way I eat.
See...we done have an agenda of dictating what you eat...just when you eat...its not famine...its fasting comrade...
Cbkmk
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