If you are mentally strong enough


www.sott.net/article/435993-MIT-study-24-hour-fasting-regenerates-stem-cells-doubles-metabolism

Too Easy Pete, I don't eat breakfast and only eat a sandwich for lunch. Skipping the sandwich for lunch is easy as sometimes work gets in the road and I don't eat it till I'm on the way home after 5pm.

Be a different story if I was sitting at home all day looking at the fridge or I could hear a packet of chips calls from the cupboard.

No matter how fast I make 24 hours go, it still takes 86,400 seconds (whilst stationary).

It's not difficult to fast 24 hours. Have dinner at say 7pm, go to sleep later that evening and then skip breakfast & lunch.

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elmo said..
..... (whilst stationary).

Relative to....?

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Cambodge said..

elmo said..
..... (whilst stationary).

Relative to....?

Oooooooo!

My brother.

I think this isn't pseudo science, I've been on the 5 2 diet for several years now, this isn't a total fast, just reducing calories to 600 for 2 days a week. This is supposed to achieve the same thing. Before I went on it, I was having lots of nana naps and didn't have much energy. A few weeks after, no more nana naps and plenty of energy.

It is certainly not pseudoscience.

Whilst the knowledge that fasting is beneficial to health has been around since Hippocrates it is only in recent years that modern science has verified the actual physiology behind it. Oshinori Ohsumi was awarded the Nobel prize for his discoveries of the mechanisms of autophagy in 2016 :

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2016/press-release/

I reckon that this knowledge will, in years to come, be recognised as one of the most important "discoveries" in the field of human health. I've long held the opinion that people are eating so much more than they need to and that the consequence is inevitably poor health.

There is a slight hitch when it comes to widespread dissemination of this knowledge and that is the fact that it is not something which benefits the food industry whose goal is profit through consumption of as much as they can sell.

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japie said..
........ I've long held the opinion that people are eating so much more than they need to and that the consequence is inevitably poor health.

It's not a matter of opinion. The evidence is visible all around us every day, grotesque mounds of lard puffing and chafing and waddling along, often barely out of their teens. Their weekly shop is 28 liters of Coke, 4 kilos of chips, 2 kilos of biscuits, and a packet of six sausages.

The gaps get filled with daily visits to Maccas, and the only real exercise is putting on their shoes, going from the couch to the fridge, and trying to clean their mountainous behinds after their morning dump.

One of them could feed a family of cannibals for a month.

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japie said..
........ I've long held the opinion that people are eating so much more than they need to and that the consequence is inevitably poor health.

It's not a matter of opinion. The evidence is visible all around us every day, grotesque mounds of lard puffing and chafing and waddling along, often barely out of their teens. Their weekly shop is 28 liters of Coke, 4 kilos of chips, 2 kilos of biscuits, and a packet of six sausages.

The gaps get filled with daily visits to Maccas, and the only real exercise is putting on their shoes, going from the couch to the fridge, and trying to clean their mountainous behinds after their morning dump.

One of them could feed a family of cannibals for a month.

Brutally honest

There are no fatties in a famine.

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Mobydisc said..
There are no fatties in a famine.

That's where this all started. some researchers were surprised to discover that a group of people came out of a mild famine healthier than average. They were expecting the reverse.

Gold......


It's not a matter of opinion. The evidence is visible all around us every day, grotesque mounds of lard puffing and chafing and waddling along, often barely out of their teens. Their weekly shop is 28 liters of Coke, 4 kilos of chips, 2 kilos of biscuits, and a packet of six sausages.

The gaps get filled with daily visits to Maccas, and the only real exercise is putting on their shoes, going from the couch to the fridge, and trying to clean their mountainous behinds after their morning dump.

One of them could feed a family of cannibals for a month.

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petermac33 said..
Gold......


It's not a matter of opinion. The evidence is visible all around us every day, grotesque mounds of lard puffing and chafing and waddling along, often barely out of their teens. Their weekly shop is 28 liters of Coke, 4 kilos of chips, 2 kilos of biscuits, and a packet of six sausages.

The gaps get filled with daily visits to Maccas, and the only real exercise is putting on their shoes, going from the couch to the fridge, and trying to clean their mountainous behinds after their morning dump.

One of them could feed a family of cannibals for a month.

The scary thing about this is that chips are very cheap, coke is sort of cheap, biscuits are cheap. Its a shame that fruit and vegetables are far more expensive. Its hard to push people into better diets when junk food is so cheap and good food is not.

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decrepit said..
I think this isn't pseudo science, I've been on the 5 2 diet for several years now, this isn't a total fast, just reducing calories to 600 for 2 days a week. This is supposed to achieve the same thing. Before I went on it, I was having lots of nana naps and didn't have much energy. A few weeks after, no more nana naps and plenty of energy.

I was on 5/2 for 4-5 years and observed similar benefits. Then I switched to 16/8 2-3 years ago and I think it is even better. Then I started reducing carbs in my diet without going full ketogenic i.e. simply avoiding bread, rice and potatoes as much as possible and it got even better. I came down from 84-86kg to 76-78kg within a few months.. Apart from health benefits, I am a better windsurfer now e.g. planing earlier and sailing with smaller gear .

I remember when my kids were littler, helping out in the canteen at the soccer club on training nights. Bottle of water $1.50, can of coke or fanta, $1.00

Really good article on fasting discussing what happens to the body at the various stages. A 72 hour fast works the best but is far from easy.

lifeapps.io/fasting/the-5-stages-of-intermittent-fasting/