So intermittent fasting is easily my personal favorite diet modification. I’m not sure I should call it a diet modification, as it can be done with any diet…it’s more about timing.
For those who aren’t familiar, New England Journal of Medicine is a very respected medical journal. It recently published a review article touting the benefits of intermittent fasting as including everything from anti-aging, to weight loss, improving insulin resistance and diabetes as well as some of the complications from diabetes, to improving the body’s response to stress, to potentially reducing incidence of cancer!
More studies are being done in most areas, but it’s beginning to hold its own as something that the authors feel should be introduced at the medical school level.
I will tell you, I fell in love with this concept when I read The Obesity Code by Jason Fung, and have found it beneficial personally. I was able to lose my baby weight, and my A1c was the best it has ever looked…ever.
It’s definitely something I tend to recommend, but you definitely have to have a conversation with your physician, particularly if you are on medications.
For more information on what all intermittent fasting entails, see my previous blog post here.
There is a great Intermittent Fasting Video on youtube by Dr Berg that he just posted about how to start doing it. Have you seen it? Do you feel that it has merit? Thank you! Please keep blogging!