The All or Nothing concept of eating -- alternative day eating/fasting.
Quote:Our hunter-gatherer ancestors spent hours each day searching for food that was only intermittently available. They'd fast, and then they'd feast. These ancient humans developed a "thrifty" genotype that helped them adapt to these cycles of want and plenty.
Today, we carry this same genetic makeup with us, and several animal studies and few small human trials indicate that there may be, for us too, health benefits to alternate-day fasting, a regimen that somewhat mimics the irregular and unpredictable food intake pattern on which our ancestors evolved.
Evidence has been accruing for some time that chronic calorie restriction, in which daily intake is reduced to 60 percent to 85 percent of an individual's daily needs, appears to have significant health benefits. Such restriction has been shown to reduce risk factors for several chronic diseases in animals and humans, and to increase life span in rats, mice, fish, flies, worms and yeast.
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Mr B is very much an all or nothing type of person. He's done fasts before and feels good afterwards. He's thinking of trying this diet. I don't think I could do it -- well, right now I could -- but it seems more beneficial to men than women anyway. I think it would be hard to follow longterm but the research indicates that study participants found it easier to follow than trying to generally reduce intake.
I'll be curious to see how well he does.
