1:1 or 2:1 intermittent fasting regimen<\/a> \u2014 meaning they were allowed to gorge for one or two days in a row on a 60% fat diet \u2014 followed by a full day of fasting.<\/p>\nResearchers found that intermittent fasting helped with weight, regardless of caloric intake. doucefleur \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n
Even with this questionable diet, intermittent fasting prevented weight gain the same way a healthy diet would, the researchers found.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe results could have important implications for people with obesity,\u201d lead author Vict\u00f2ria Ceperuelo Mallafr\u00e9, a researcher at the Joan XXIII Hospital in Tarragona, Spain, told The Post.<\/p>\n
Vict\u00f2ria Ceperuelo Mallafr\u00e9 led the research. Vict\u00f2ria Ceperuelo Mallafr\u00e9\/ Linkedin<\/p>\n
She says this means there\u2019s alternatives to driving yourself crazy counting calories if you\u2019re conscious of your weight.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the biggest challenges in losing weight is sticking to a strict diet with imposing sustained caloric restriction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Human dieters may not need to go to the extreme of fasting for a full day.<\/p>\n
Preliminary, unpublished results from her research group suggest that fasting for just certain hours of the day could lead to improvements, Ceperuelo Mallafr\u00e9 said.<\/p>\n
Researchers found intermittent fasting helped regulate blood sugar levels too, even when eating unhealthily. Sia \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n
Researchers say the findings are important for the treatment of obesity and diabetes. New Africa \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n
Typically, humans practice intermittent fasting by not eating for anywhere between 12 and 16 hours a day, usually overnight.<\/p>\n
The mice studied also saw their blood sugar and cholesterol levels drop without having to cut their daily caloric intake.<\/p>\n
The findings were published last month in medical journal The Lancet and are among the latest in a wide body of research pushing the purported benefits of intermittent fasting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dieters can have their cake and eat it too \u2014 provided they follow one rule. Spanish researchers found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[10305,3457,186,97,269,986,1728,3458],"class_list":["post-10381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-calories","tag-diets","tag-exclusive","tag-health","tag-nutrition","tag-obesity","tag-research","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}