Intermittent Fasting

On the standard diet of highly-processed, high carbohydrate foods, many people wake up hungry, eat three meals a day with some snacks and desserts interpersed throughout the day. This constant eating can set up insulin resistance eventually. We have witnessed a skyrocket effect of this major health problem that is insulin resistance in the last several years in industrialized countries.

This lifestyle comes in direct opposition to the one we evolved eating as little as 10,000 years before the present. Before we settled down to a life of agricultural food production, humans were foragers. We hunted for food, gathered compliements to it and went longer periods without eating out of necessity. Eating a more natural animal based diet does not cause the constant hunger we experience eating modern foreign foods. Moreover, intermittent fasting restores insulin sensitivity. This disease of civilization is arrested when we eat the proper foods and naturally decrease our number of meals daily.

Intermittent fasting means either eating in a compressed time allotment daily or alternating feast days with fast days. The latter method has shown to increase longevity when people ate less than required on some days, more on alternate days. The reduced meal frequency has been shown to have health benefits, even in the absence of calorie restriction.

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