Intermittent Fasting Research
Introduction To Intermittent Fasting Research
Find out more before starting your Intermittent Fasting journey with 2 Meal Day. Here are some of the most recent articles, journals, and Intermittent Fasting studies that we have come across that contribute to Intermittent Fasting Research.
Why Fast? What’s it all about?
Fasting teaches you to tune into your body. You will start to understand what “Real” hunger feels like, something that occurs every 16-24 hours not every four hours. Being in a fasted state promotes incredible changes in the body. Taking us back to the way human beings ate for thousands of years when food wasn’t constantly available. Intermittent Fasting has nothing to do with starvation. It’s about giving your body what it needs when it needs it. Just by pushing your first meal a bit later into the day you can optimise virtually every system in the body.
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Is Breakfast The Most Important Meal of The Day?
The Bath Breakfast Project is a series of randomised controlled trials exploring the effects of extended morning fasting on energy balance and health. These trials were categorically not designed to answer whether or not breakfast is the most important meal of the day. However, this review will philosophise about the meaning of that question and about what questions we should be asking to better understand the effects of breakfast, before summarising how individual components of energy balance and health respond to breakfast v. fasting in lean and obese adults.
Download PDFShort-term modified alternate-day fasting: a novel dietary strategy for weight loss and cardioprotection in obese adults
This study examined the effects of ADF that is administered under control compared with self-implemented conditions on body weight and coronary artery disease (CAD) risk indicators in obese adults.
Download PDFBeneficial Effects of Intermittent Fasting and Caloric Restriction on the Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Systems
Both IF and CR enhance cardiovascular and brain functions and improve several risk factors for coronary artery disease and stroke including a reduction in blood pressure and increased insulin sensitivity.
Download PDFEarly Time-Restricted Feeding Improves Insulin Sensitivity, Blood Pressure, and Oxidative Stress Even without Weight Loss in Men with Prediabetes
A fascinating study to test whether intermittent fasting has benefits in humans in the absence of weight loss and calorie restriction. In conclusion, after 5 weeks, improved insulin levels, insulin sensitivity, b cell responsiveness, blood pressure, and oxidative stress levels.
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10 Evidence-Based Health Benefits of Intermittent Fasting
Want to read some more about the health benefit of Intermittent Fasting? Here are 10 great ones that are all evidence-based from a recent article by Healthline!
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The Difference Between Fasting and Caloric Restriction
A great article written by Dr. Jason Fung on the biological difference between starvation and fasting. A must-read.
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Fasting for three days can regenerate entire immune system, study finds
This is a really interesting study on the therapeutic and healing effects of fasting. Hopefully, more studies like this are funded so we can understand the mechanisms and how they can be used practically.
View articleIs Breakfast The Most Important Meal of The Day?
The Bath Breakfast Project is a series of randomised controlled trials exploring the effects of extended morning fasting on energy balance and health. These trials were categorically not designed to answer whether or not breakfast is the most important meal of the day. However, this review will philosophise about the meaning of that question and about what questions we should be asking to better understand the effects of breakfast, before summarising how individual components of energy balance and health respond to breakfast v. fasting in lean and obese adults.
Download PDFShort-term modified alternate-day fasting: a novel dietary strategy for weight loss and cardioprotection in obese adults
This study examined the effects of ADF that is administered under control compared with self-implemented conditions on body weight and coronary artery disease (CAD) risk indicators in obese adults.
Download PDFBeneficial Effects of Intermittent Fasting and Caloric Restriction on the Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Systems
Both IF and CR enhance cardiovascular and brain functions and improve several risk factors for coronary artery disease and stroke including a reduction in blood pressure and increased insulin sensitivity.
Download PDFEarly Time-Restricted Feeding Improves Insulin Sensitivity, Blood Pressure, and Oxidative Stress Even without Weight Loss in Men with Prediabetes
A fascinating study to test whether intermittent fasting has benefits in humans in the absence of weight loss and calorie restriction. In conclusion, after 5 weeks, improved insulin levels, insulin sensitivity, b cell responsiveness, blood pressure, and oxidative stress levels.
Download PDF