Intermediate Fasting: The ultimate hack for weight loss
In an ever-changing world where each day we hear the discovery of a revolutionary diet, we take a look at one such method that has been adopted profusely in recent times - ‘Intermediate Fasting’. This is an eating pattern that cycles between periods of fasting and eating. In the conventional sense, it is not a diet but can be more accurately described as an eating pattern. It is basically a timed approach to eating. Unlike a dietary plan that restricts where calories come from, Intermittent Fasting specifies not what but when should you eat.
As with many other diets, the science behind Intermittent Fasting is contested by some but the American Heart Association states that it can help in weight loss, reduce insulin resistance and lower the risk of cardio-metabolic diseases. It is also linked with the reduction of obesity, hypertension and inflammation in people who adopt it.
Even Intermediate Fasting has a number of ways to go about it and some of them are:
Eat-Stop-Eat Diet: This fasting method needs you to fast for 24 hours straight, where you can only have fluids, once or twice a week.
Warrior Diet: This allows the person to eat minimal for 20 hours each day and then eat all their meals in the remaining four hours.
Leangains Diet: Males who follow this diet fast for 16 hours and eat in the remaining eight, while females fast for 14 hours and eat what they want in the remaining 10.
Alternate Day Fasting: Fasting every alternate day is considered to improve blood sugar and cholesterol, as well as facilitate weight loss.
5:2 Diet: This allows the person to eat normally five times a week, but for two non-consecutive days, they need to restrict their daily calorie intake to 500-600 calories.
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