Question

What do you think about intermittent diet method of losing weight? would you recommend it to yourself or someone else? Explain why this diet may or may not be a good idea.

Answer 1

Ans) The route to weight loss has traditionally been to cut calories. Swap that regular soda for diet, grab an apple instead of a cookie, and you'll trim pounds, the idea goes.

- But, instead of going for such calorie cuts, many people are now taking more intense steps to lower their average daily calorie counts.

- Called intermittent fasting, this latest way to diet takes a different approach. Rather than change how much you eat, you change when you eat. "Intermittent fasting is loosely defined as periods of non-eating, followed by periods of eating.

- The origins of fasting are rooted in religion. Several faiths, including Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, observe periods of food restriction for spiritual reasons. Somewhere along the line, researchers discovered that skipping meals also has a few health benefits, including weight loss and lowered blood pressure and cholesterol.

- Normally after you eat, your pancreas releases the hormone insulin. That burst of insulin helps move sugar from your bloodstream into your cells to be used for energy.

Whatever sugar is left over goes into your muscle or is metabolized and stored in fat cells as trigylcerides. When fasting, your insulin levels drop and your body burns stored fat for energy.

So its a good idea to recommend intermittent fasting.