Intermittent Fasting Helps Doctor Lose 125 Pounds in 18 Months
Intermittent fasting is an eating style that involves eating within a specific time period and fasting the rest of the time. Most people go for 16 hours with an 8-hour break to eat their meals, and usually, the lunch is their first meal.
Fasting differs from starvation in one crucial way: control, as while starvation is the involuntary absence of food for a long time, which can lead to numerous health complications, and is not controlled nor deliberate, fasting is the voluntary withholding of food for spiritual, health, or other reasons.
Intermittent fasting is recommended for people who are not underweight and have enough stored body fat to live off.
The avoidance of food can be done for any period of time, from a few hours up to a few days or weeks, — with medical supervision. Fasting has no standard duration since it is the absence of eating. One can start and end the fasting period whenever he wants, for any reason or no reason at all.
At its very core, intermittent fasting helps the body to use its stored energy. People have evolved to fast for shorter periods of time, without facing any health consequences.
When we eat, more food energy is ingested than can be immediately used, so some of it must be stored away for later use. The key hormone involved in the storage of food energy is insulin. If you do not eat, the body fat will serve as food energy that has been stored away.
Intermittent fasting was introduced in 1900 by the American physician Edward Hooker Dewey in his book “The No-Breakfast Plan and Fasting Cure.” The book was based on a human experiment, which showed that the lack of appetite is a way in which Nature is trying to digest existing reserves and optimize its function while preventing diseases.
Therefore, the fasting periods are the time the body needs in order to do its job. Edward suffered from terrible headaches and digestive issues, so he tried skipping breakfast, and he experienced amazing improvements.
The main focus of intermittent fasting is to give the body enough to eliminate waste and heal.
There are several types of fasting:
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