Why intermittent fasting could double the risk of heart diseases in us?
Intermittent fasting can be a double edged sword!!
On one hand, it could help us to lose our excess body weight but on another hand it can also result in heart diseases in us. Shocking?
The intermittent fasting has gained huge popularity in recent times. Here, persons eat their meals in a restricted time span of a few hours (8 hours per day)and not eat any food for the remaining time of the day. Recently, research study has brought out that intermittent fasting could be dangerous as it can lead to heart diseases etc in us. The research has been published in Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome. In the research study, as many as 19000 individuals were taken into consideration. Point is that the research was based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey or NHANES.
It was revealed by the research study that participants who restricted eating to an 8 hour time frame every day had 135% more chances of getting affected by heart related illness like heart attacks, strokes etc when compared to participants who eat food in the 12 hours to 14 hours range time..
Various reasons why intermittent fasting can result in above mentioned heart issues are
Loss of lean muscle mass:
By extreme fasting, loss of lean muscle mass would be there and this would not be good for the heart.
Circadian rhythms:
It must be noted that a diet that has too little time in the day might mislead the body clock and affect heart functions.
Low quality of foods:
Truth is that a person might over eat on energy dense and low nutrient foods during the period of consuming such meals. This could lead to risk to the heart.
Body strain:
It is learnt that prolonged fasting over a period of time would lead to strain on the body`s stress levels leading to adverse effects on the heart.
Things to keep in mind during intermittent fasting:
Please keep away from very short eating windows of less than 8 hours. It is necessary to eat heart healthy and weight healthy foods while eating in the windows. Watching out for symptoms like dizziness, palpitations, tiredness etc. Consulting a medical expert is very important t before beginning fasting routines. For heart health to be good, gradual calorie cutting plus good nutrition is important. Please take care it`s your health.
