Health and Weight - Life Style, Nutrition and Exercise: Intermittent Fasting for Weight Loss

Saturday, May 19, 2018

Intermittent Fasting for Weight Loss - Does It Work?

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Metabolic Effects of Intermittent Fasting

Annual Review of Nutrition

Vol. 37:371-393 (Volume publication date August 2017)

First published as a Review in Advance on July 17, 2017

https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-nutr-071816-064634

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-nutr-071816-064634

20.5.2018

It is a feasible method.

Jason Fung advocates intermittent fasting for effective weight loss. According to him Calorie Reduction as Primary strategy for weight reduction fails in the long run in majority of persons, as the body's chemically decided or determined weight requirement will bring back the weight to original level. Jason Fung talks of insulin resistance that requires preparation of more insulin by pancreas. This increases insulin in the body compared to a healthy persons and gives rise to more weight. The insulin has to be brought down by increasing insulin sensitivity. Keeping a gap of more than 12 hours between food intake will increase insulin sensitivity.

For permanent weight loss, insulin levels in the body are to be brought down, by fasting for more than 12 hours for many days. This intermittent fasting is the better strategy.