If you’ve been living on a steady diet of cereal and oatmeal, it’s time to re-evaluate your strategy. Changing your eating habits for the better will have major benefits for your health and weight. Intermittent fasting is the hottest trend in weight loss treatments. Studies show that I.F., or intermittent fasting, has enormous benefits .Below are some of them
1. Intermittent Fasting Helps You Lose Weight
Intermittent fasting can have remarkable benefits when it comes to fat loss. A 2011 study published in the journal Nutrition & Metabolism found that when overweight women ate only one meal a day, every day for 12 weeks, they lost nearly twice as much body fat as women who ate the same amount of calories but spread their calories out over three meals a day. The group that ate one meal per day also lost more fat from the trunk area and experienced a drop in blood pressure.
2. Intermittent Fasting Reduces Inflammation
Researchers have long known that chronic inflammation is linked to heart disease, diabetes, cancer and many other illnesses. Studies show that intermittent fasting can help reduce inflammation in just 21 days, according to a 2010 study conducted at the University of Michigan. “Our findings revealed that insulin sensitivity improved more in the intermittent fasting group than in the control group,” says James Brown, Ph.D., lead author of the study.
3. Intermittent Fasting Can Reverse Effects of Aging
Intermittent fasting can increase levels of a growth hormone called HGH, or human growth hormone. “Combining intermittent fasting with a regimen of high-intensity exercise may be the most effective way to slow down the aging process.
4. Intermittent Fasting Increases Mood-Boosting Brain Chemicals
Fasting increases levels of serotonin (the “happy hormone”) and other mood-boosting chemicals in the brain. That’s one reason why you may feel so energized when you break your fast. A 2014 study published in the journal Nutrition found that fasting for 11 hours a day for four days straight improved people’s moods and reduced levels of depression and fatigue.
