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Videos can use content-based copyright law contains reasonable use Fair Use ( THE trendy fad of "intermittent fasting" could add years to your life and help you shred the pounds, experts claim. Researchers have found that limiting eating to set hours or days cuts blood pressure, cholesterol and resting heart rates - warding off heart attacks and strokes. Fasting diets typically fall into two categories - the 16:8, where food is consumed within an eight hour window, or the 5:2, where you fast for two days of the week. US-based scientists have now revealed that as well as weight loss, the eating style may also help improve the body’s metabolism to the point where it slows ageing. Study lead, Professor Mark Mattson, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, has analysed the effects of fasting for more than two decades. He was so impressed with the results of the diet he adopted it himself back in the 90s. Prof Mattson said: "We are at a transition point where we could soon consider adding information about intermittent fasting to medical school curricula alongside standard advice about healthy diets and exercise." 'Metabolic switching' His findings, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, show that fasting can trigger “metabolic switching” and evolutionary adaptation. Metabolic switching is understood to be a process whereby cells use up their “fuel stores” and convert fat to energy. Studies show that aside from helping with metabolism, fasting has also been linked with decreased blood pressure, cholesterol and resting heart rates. It may also help control blood sugar levels, increase resistance to stress and suppress inflammation. Intermittent fasting: What is the difference between the 5:2 and the 16:8 diet? The 5:2 diet The 5:2 diet is based on the idea of intermittent fasting, and still scoffing sweet treats like cake when you fancy. Dieters eat normally for five days of the week and severely restrict their calories for the other two. The part-time aspect appeals to many people because there is no restriction on what you eat for five days of the week. On the fasting days, dieters are meant to eat 25 percent of their recommended calorie total - 500cals for women and 600cals for men. By only fasting intermittently, you can stop your body going into starvation mode and storing up fat. The 16:8 diet The 16:8 diet allows you to eat for eight hours of the day, while fasting for the remaining 16 hours. It stems from the book 8 Hour Diet by author David Zinczenko and editor-in-chief of Men’s Health Peter Moore. They suggest that a longer fasting time between eating gives the body the time it needs to process the food and burn away extra fat stores. This diet doesn’t suggest you cram all your food into an eight-hour window. Instead, it encou
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