Fasting Helps Prevent Disease

While I'm on the subject of fasting, there is research that tells us that fasting can help with several common diseases. I mention a couple of those yesterday in terms of cognitive function.

But other diseases which fasting may help protect you from are heart disease, diabetes, and asthma to name a few where research is being conducted. With intermittent fasting, researchers found a 40% reduction in the risk for heart disease. This can be very significant if you are one of the 65% of Americans who are overweight.

The incidence of diabetes has been shown to decrease which is not a huge surprise is you are eating less. In Asthmatics, the number of attacks was decreased and the overall symptoms from Asthma were less.

The greatest thing about fasting is how good you feel and how much more energy you will have. This combined with the decrease in disease means you'll live a longer, happier life.

More on Fasting

A little more on fasting here. Fasting can help your bodies systems to take you toward disease prevention. One of the things that occurs during fasting for a couple of days is that your body begins to detoxify and get rid of the toxins that have built up within.

The other thing that occurs after fasting that researchers don't understand is that the seems to require fewer calories. They think this occurs because the cells are stressed just enough, not too much. This mild stress helps them produce proteins that are actually protective of more severe stress. This is a case of a little is good, but more is not better.

Research has also shown that reduced calories with intermittent fasting helps reduce the decline of cognitive function in diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. If you have ever fasted in an appropriate manner, you were probably aware of your own cognitive ability being sharpened.

Fasting - Is It Good for You?

Fasting can be beneficial to you if done in perspective. What do I mean by that you might ask. Skipping meals is not fasting, it's skipping meals to reduce calories. The problem is that when you do sit down to eat, you tend to eat too much at that meal, because your brain does not register that you have eaten until you have eaten way too much.

The best way to fast is for one to two days per week. I recommend that you do this with a minimal calorie intake, so you actually not totally fasting, but getting some calories that can be utilized by the brain so that you gain clarity in this process. I do not recommend that you just go a whole day without eating anything.

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