A Low Fat Advantage For Alternate Day Fasting? While the Improvements in Body Composition Are Virtually Identical, Only the 25% Fat Diet Will Improve Arterial Blood Flow
If I know anything for sure, it is that the reason your midsection does not look like this, but rather like the one of Melissa McCarthy is not a result of the fact that your diet contains 24% instead of 48% fat. Outrageous, right? What? Well, the title of this post. I mean even the use of the term "low fat advantage" is probably going to piss a couple of people off, these days. So, please low carb crusaders, don't kill the messenger, it was not my idea to put 32 obese subjects (mean age 43y) onto alternative day fasting regimen that provided either 45% (ADF-HF) or just 25% (ADF-LF) of the energy in form of fat (25% fat) and to observe what happens to their almost 50% fat (46kg of pure fat on 96kg of total body weight) bodies during a 2-week baseline weight maintenance period and an 8-week alternative day fasting weight loss period, in the course of which all foods were provided by the research team at the Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition of the University of...