The Fast Diet

One other significant benefit to Intermittent Fasting is that you don’t seem to lose muscle, which you would on a normal calorie-restricted regime. Krista herself is not sure why that is and wants to do further research.

When we eat food, particularly food rich in carbohydrates, our blood glucose levels rise and the pancreas, an organ below the ribs and near the left kidney, starts to churn out insulin. Glucose is the main fuel that our cells use for energy, but the body does not like having high levels of it circulating in the blood. The job of insulin, a hormone,

The villagers with Laron syndrome are normally quite short; many are less than four feet tall. The thing that is most surprising about them, however, is that, like the Laron mice, they simply don’t seem to develop common diseases like diabetes and cancer. In fact, Valter says that, though they have been studied for many years, there is not a single

felt a certain trepidation as I realised that for the next four days I would be drinking nothing but water, sugarless black tea and coffee, and one measly cup of low-calorie soup a day.

Broadly speaking a GI over 50 or a GL over 20 is not good, and the lower both figures are the better.

Male or female, your waist should be less than half your height.

Valter recommends that you don’t eat more than 0.8g of protein per kg of body weight per day. For someone like me, that would be around 64g a day.

Valter thinks that the majority of people with a BMI over 25 would benefit from fasting, but he also thinks that if you plan to do it for more than a day it should be done in a proper centre. As he put it, ‘a prolonged

While there are few known risks involved in fasting for less than 24 hours, the same is not true of prolonged fasts.