Feeling Like A Holiday Glutton? It May Be Time To Try A Fast : The Salt : NPR:
Before this season of overindulgence freights us with unwanted pounds or a glutton's guilt complex, why not try the opposite of the holiday feast: the fast.'via Blog this'
Fasting need not be a punishing, multiday ordeal of deprivation. Increasingly, scientists are warming to the intermittent fast, which can be as brief as one skipped meal once or twice a week.
The benefits of fasting seem to extend far beyond managing weight. A recent paper in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences makes a cautious but encouraging case for how regularly cutting way back on calories for a short period of time may be good for your health.
The lead author is Mark Mattson, a researcher at the National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins University. As he and his co-authors write, minifasts — consuming just 500 to 600 calories two days a week — or skipping breakfast and/or lunch several days a week could boost the immune system, sharpen the mind and fight off disease.
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