{"id":989608,"date":"2021-04-12T08:54:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T08:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ideaclinics.com\/?p=989608"},"modified":"2021-05-21T09:49:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T09:49:44","slug":"intermittent-fasting-methods-diet-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ideaclinics.com\/intermittent-fasting-methods-diet-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Intermittent Fasting Methods, Diet & Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Intermittent fasting is currently one of the popular health and fitness trends. People are using Intermittent Fasting Methods to lose weight, improve their health, simplify their lifestyles, and prevent diabetes. There are studies showing positive effects on the body and brain and may even help you live longer. Intermittent Fasting is not suitable for patients with Diabetes on treatment, particularly on insulin. It is not recommended for women who are pregnant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Below is some information about intermittent fasting recommended by the experts from IDEA CLINICS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Is Intermittent Fasting?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As the name implies intermittent fasting is an eating pattern that cycles between periods of fasting and eating. It doesn\u2019t specify which foods to eat but rather suggests when to eat them. In fact, it\u2019s not a diet in the conventional sense but can be described as an eating pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Common intermittent fasting methods involve daily 16 hour fasts or fasting for 24 hours, twice per week. Fasting has been a practice in the Indian tradition for many decades as a custom or religious belief. Though fasting during ramadan is more known in the west, in fact, much larger section of Hindus, particularly women do it as a weekly event for most part of the year all through their lives. Fasting is often done for religious or spiritual reasons, including in Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism. Even from evolution point of view, fasting from time to time is more natural than always eating three meals per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intermittent Fasting Methods<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There are several different approaches for intermittent fasting which involve splitting the day or week into eating and fasting periods. During the fasting periods, one eats either very little or nothing at all. By reducing calorie intake, these methods should cause weight loss<\/a> as long as one doesn\u2019t compensate by eating much more during the eating periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most popular approaches are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Eat-Stop-Eat:<\/strong> This involves fasting for 24 hours, once or twice a week, for example by not eating from dinner one day until dinner the next day.<\/li>
  2. The 2:5 diet:<\/strong> Here a very low calorie diet (<600 kcal\/day) is consumed  on two non consecutive days of the week, but eat normally the other 5 days.<\/li>
  3. 16 :8 diet (Skipping breakfast):<\/strong> It involves skipping breakfast and restricting eating period to 8 hours, such as lunch at 1 noon and dinner at 9 p.m. Here the  fasting is for 16 hours in between. This is most popular, simplest and sustainable and common among previous generations in India.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    How It Affects Hormones<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    During fasting several things happen to the body at cellular level as body adjusts hormone levels to make stored body fat more accessible. The cells may initiate some repair processes and gene expressions. The possible hormonal changes are as follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n