If you know me at all, you know I am not into fads or weird eating programs. I believe in food. In general, my nutrition advice is this: eat your veggies and drink lots of water. The rest of it, for many of us, is a matter of experimentation while we figure out what kind of eating makes us feel good. I know people who feel best eating vegan and people who feel fabulous with keto and people somewhere in between.
All that is about what we eat. There is a certain amount of evidence that when we eat can affect how we feel as well. Enter intermittent fasting.
The theory behind intermittent fasting is that back before agriculture and electricity, we ate when we could and we slept when it was dark because there was nothing to binge-watch. We know, physically, how to thrive when we don’t eat all day every day. At least that’s the idea. Theories are, by nature, generalizations and we have to test stuff out to see how they apply in our own personal, particular, unique-snowflake lives.
The science suggests that intermittent fasting can have a positive effect on lean body mass, longevity, and brain function. Check out this link:
Anyone who wants to experiment can try the 16/8 method, in which we fast for 16 hours and eat during the other eight, or the 5/2 method, in which we eat normally five days a week and have only a single meal on the other two days. If we feel good, great! If we don’t, we can stop and return to our normal eating patterns.
Tell me what you think!
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