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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...

You knew that all these fat burning high protein foods are high in phosphorus?! 1 cm per week? What sounds like an advertisement for the next best useless fat burner, is in fact the rate at which the 47 obese, but otherwise "healthy" subjects in a recent study from the American University of Beirut had to tighten their belts (Ayoub. 2015)... Ok, I know that this is not DNP-like earth-shatteringly fast, but in view of the fact that the placebo group had to loosen their belts to accommodate for an additional 0.36 cm increase in waist circumference, it is still quite amazing. I mean, would you have expected that the amount of phosphorus of ca. 300 g salmon would have such an effect if there's no other difference in diet or physical activity between the two groups of overweight participants? If you're looking for a true fat burner, try coffee ;-) For Caffeine, Timing Matters! 45 Min or More? Coffee - The Good, Bad & Interesting Three Cups of Coffee Ke...

The good thing about paleo is that you can eat a broad range of foods. An advantage that makes paleo versatile and tasty enough to adhere to. I know that I will probably have annoyed some of you by implicitly calling "paleo" non-scientific. If we are honest, though, the whole paleo concept is based on extrapolating data from modern hunter gatherer populations, infusing them with a minimal amount of real evidence of what our ancestors ate and mixing that with the intrinsically flawed assumption that the way our ancestors ate (which was 100% opportunistic and 0% "optimized") was the optimal way for us to eat... and no, I am not going to apologize for what some of you may consider an assault on respected scientists who have published more than a dozen of papers which constitute the theoretical backbone of an experimentally still mostly unverified, but promising approach to "healthy dieting". Meat is an essential part of the "paleo diet" | Lea...