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Fasting can help fight obesity and metabolic disorders, study

Posted on: 20/Oct/2017 3:48:27 PM
Are you putting on weight due to poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyle practices? If so, we have a simple and effective solution to it. You can fight obesity and other kinds of metabolic disorders by fasting for one day after every two days, claims a new study.
 
The researchers state that practicing intermittent fasting for up to 16 weeks can help in fighting obesity and different kinds of metabolic disorders. They further add that results of such fasting practice are evidently seen after 6 weeks.
 
Kyoung-Han Kim and Yun Hye Kim conducted the study with mice. They conclude saying that intermittent fasting helped in boosting metabolism and burning fat by producing body heat. The research was headed by Hoon-Ki Sung of The Hospital for Sick Children in Ontario, Canada.
 
The research further stresses on the fact that poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyle practices are the key reasons in developing diabetes and other kinds of metabolic diseases and obesity. The study involved exposing a group of mice to intermittent fasting for about 16 weeks.
 
The research regimen involved feeding the animal for two days and allowing it to fast for one day without giving anything to eat. In no way, their calorie intake was altered. After about 4 months, the mice belonging to fasting group weighed lesser than the others belonging to the other group that continued having same volume of food.
 
Dip in lower body weight of mice belonging to fasting group is not the only effect of the research, rather the fasting practice aided in lowering fat build up by whopping up brown-like fat that promoted energy burning and producing heat with high fat diet.
It was also observed that their glucose and insulin levels continued to be stable. With the practice of fasting, an immune reaction on fat cells is observed.
 
This kind of intermittent fating with no reduction in calorie intake can be stated as a preventative and therapeutic approach to fight obesity and metabolic disorders.