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Postpone Breakfast, Prepone Dinner (Each 90 Min), Eat How Much & Whatever You Like → Lose 2% Body Fat in 10 Wks

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The great strength of the study, the leeway the subjects had in terms of what and how much they would eat would, is also an important weakness because it would require a much more thorough monitoring of their food intake to appropriately interpret all the results of this pilot study. As a SuppVeristy  reader, you're well aware of the health , physique , and performance benefits of (intermittent) fasting and/or eating in tune with your biological clocks  (#circadian rhythm). As a practitioner, you will also know that dietary changes, which may sound simple and easy to implement when you first hear about them, require giving up cherished habits and a lot of will-power, and discipline from yourself or your clients. The authors of a recent 10-week human study on 'time-restricted feeding', scientists from the University of Surrey ,   do now suggest that the changes you have to make to your dietary template don't have to be as extensive as the classic 16h/8h or 18h/6...

Weekly 2-Day Fast (5:2 Diet) as Effective for Losing Weight and Waist as Continuous Dieting (-500kcal Every Day)

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I suspect changing what the subjects ate would have had additional benefits on top of the reduced energy intake. In the medical literature, there are two different interpretations of "intermittent fasting". While one of them refers more or less to what people from the fitness community will think of if you talk with them about "intermittent fasting" (i.e. eating only within a feeding window of 2-6h in 24h), most researchers use "intermittent fasting" as an umbrella-term for all sorts of time-restricted fasting regimens, including alternate-day fasting regimen and their clones, where you fast say 2, 3, or 4 days per week. Regimen such as the one scientists from the  University of Melbourne Department of Medicine  have recently compared to "classic dieting" (constant daily energy deficit) in 24 males 55–75 year-old war veterans with stable weight problems (body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to 30 kg/m²). Learn more about fasting at...

Adaptation to Intermittent Ramadan Fasting Takes Time, but Eventually Mood, Fatigue, and the Quality of Life Improve

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No, it wasn't a button like this which made the subjects happy. It took some time, yeah, but after a few weeks the participants, students of the Hannover Medical School , where the trial was conducted actually felt better, not - as the scientists who conducted this Ramadan fasting study had expected - worse than without their religious fasting. But let's not go too fast, here. The subjects had volunteered to participate in the study and were non-randomly assigned to a fasting (FG) and a non-fasting (NFG) group (according to their individual plans | Nugraha. 2016). Learn more about fasting at the SuppVersity Breakfast and Circadian Rhythm "Lean Gains" Fast Works Habits Determine Effects of Fasting Fasting Works for Obese, Too!? IF + Resistance Training = WIN ADF Beats Ca-lorie Restriction To be eligible into the FG, participants had to: (1) be healthy, (2) be older than 18 years of age, (3) intend to fast the whole month of Ramadan, (4) ha...

Starting to Have Breakfast is Worst New Year's Resolution ... Unless You Want to Gain Weight (80% Fat, 20% Lean Mass)

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Unless your breakfast looks like this, the study does not mean that you can no longer have breakfast. If you're following the SuppVersity  news, you may remember a post from Wednesday in which I outlined that it is no wonder people fail to lose the weight they intend to, because they try to achieve this weight loss by having soup or, you guessed it, finally doing what the mainstream nutrition experts' cookie-cutter approaches suggest and.. have breakfast, every day . What actually happens to those who fall for the epidemiological bullsh*t science that's trying to extrapolate causal relationships from observational (often unreliable) data has now been demonstrated by a group of US scientists. Believe it or not, Gabrielle Marie LeCheminant et al. are the first researchers to actually experimentally investigated how starting to have breakfast voluntarily will affect your energy intake and weight trajectory. Learn more about fasting at the SuppVersity Breakfast and...

New "Lean Gains" Study Confirms: IF Gets Athletes Lean & Improves Insulin Sensitivity W/Out Impairing Their Gains

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Intermittent fasting has accumulated lots of scientific back-up in obese subjects and rodent models of obesity. In lean, athletic folks, however, the "evidence" is - with one exception - based on hear-say and N=1 reports... until now! While previous studies in Ramadan fasting have already provided some evidence of the efficacy of intermittent fasting - lean gains style - aka 16h fasting to 8h feeding, the latest study from the University of Padova is the latest of two studies ( here's a write-up of the other one ) that were specifically designed to evaluate the efficacy of what the scientists call "an increasingly popular dietary approach used for weight loss and overall health" (Moro. 2016). As the authors likewise point out, the evidence that intermittent fasting (IF) can have significant beneficial effects on blood lipids and other health outcomes in the overweight and obese, albeit mostly using alternate day fasting (learn more), there's limited a...
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