What breaks a fast? Does tea, or coffee or cream or sugar break the fast? How about diet soda? Dr. Jason Fung discusses what you can take during intermittent fasting and how this affects weight loss. These are called fasting variations, and can still be very effective for weight loss.
Total Energy Expenditure (TEE), or the total number or calories we use in a day has many components, and exercise is only a tiny, tiny part Basal Metabolic Rate, Thermogenic effect of Food, Non-Exercise activity thermogenesis, excess post-exercise oxygen consumption and exercise all contribute to TEE Compensation limits the weight loss effect of exercise Exercise…
Hormones are the key to weight loss, not calorie counting. While the Calories In, Calories Out theory of weight loss sounds correct, it is flawed by incorrect hidden assumptions. Body fat stores, a very important determinant of survival, is very tightly regulated by our hormones. The Eat Less, Move More strategy of weight loss fails…
Growth hormone decreases with age Growth hormone maintains lean mass including muscles and bones Injecting artificial growth hormone causes side effects like high blood sugars and enlarged hearts Fasting naturally boosts growth hormone Fasting increases autophagy (breakdown of protein) while stimulating growth resulting in rejuvenation of tissues By Jason Fung, M.D., Co-founder of The Fasting…
Replacing a regular sugared drink with diet sodas seems like a good way to lose weight. Diet drinks have zero calories and no sugar. Since this will lower sugar intake, it seems like a good idea. Both the American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association in 2012 endorsed the use of diet drinks as…
Tea is the second most popular beverage in the world, second only to water. It is classified by level of fermentation into black tea, drunk mostly in Europe, North America and North Africa, oolong tea and green tea, drunk mostly in Asia. The beneficial effects are largely thought to be due to the polyphenols, which…
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