Losing weight through daily fasting?
How effective is interval is almost, the people only four or six hours per day for the intake of food spend? The results of a new study show that this Form of food intake contributes to the fact that people take every day is about 550 calories less, which is linked to a longer period of time with a significant weight loss.
In the current investigation of the University of Illinois at Chicago, examined daily intermittent fasting affects the weight. The results were published in the English scientific journal “Cell Metabolism”.
Participants were only allowed to eat four or six hours of the day
In the study, the effects of two different forms of interval were examined fasting on the weight. In one Form, the Participants were allowed to take only a period of four hours, food in the second Scam, this period is six hours. The effects of fasting in both groups were compared with a non-fasting control group.
The research work is the first clinical study on humans in which the effects of two popular forms of interval fasting on body weight and cardio-metabolic risk factors were compared, report the researchers.
How was established the study?
The Participants in the group with the 4-hour food intake were asked to eat only between 13.00 and 17.00. The Participants in the other group were asked to eat only between 13.00 and 19.00. Both groups were able to in your time of food intake what food they wanted.
What is the Participating in lent, were allowed to take?
In the daily periods of fasting, the Participants were allowed to take only water or drinks without calories. Persons in the control group, however, should try to maintain your weight and to change neither her diet nor her physical activity level.
What was measured?
All the Participants were monitored for a period of ten weeks, with weight, insulin resistance, oxidative Stress, blood pressure, LDL-cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, triglycerides and inflammatory markers were measured.
Effects of fasting
The researchers found that the Participants in the two fasting groups were reduced only by the adherence to the time plan, the calorie intake by about 550 calories per day, and over the period of the investigation, approximately three percent of your body weight decreases. In addition, the insulin resistance and the oxidative Stress were reduced in these individuals compared with Participants from the control group.
There were other differences between the groups?
There were no effects on blood pressure, LDL-cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol or triglycerides. The researchers found no significant difference in weight loss or cardio metabolic risk factors between the two almost were also the groups can be observed.
Fast diets are suitable for weight loss
“The results of this study are promising and confirm what we found in other studies –’ve seen; Fast diets are a viable Option for people who want to lose weight, especially for people who want to count no calories or other diets, tiring empfinden”, the author of the Study Professor Krista Varady of the University of Illinois at Chicago in a press release reported.
What is the period of fasting is the most useful?
“It is also significant that it is for people who have longer fasted, no additional Benefit in weight loss gab”, adds the expert. Until further studies are available that compare the two diets with each other directly, or the optimal time for the fast to examine, could be considered the restriction to a 6-hour daily food intake during interval fasting as sufficient. (as)
