Fasting could help reduce heart disease
PhysOrg has very interesting article on the potential health benefits of Fasting. The practice of fasting, that is abstaining from two or more meals in a row, is common to many different religious and mystic groups. But until recently was not considered to have any health benefits.
Now research is showing that fasting once a month may lead to a reduced risk of heart disease and other cardiovascular ailments.
Kind of makes you wonder what other religious practices may have unknown health benefits.
Via PhysOrg: People who skip meals: are they better off?
This is a very interesting post. If you define fasting as “having not taken any calories for at least 8 hours” many people nowadays are (nearly) never fasting.
they gave it less food than normal, enough to live (well) but not too much, and the worm was living significantly longer.
There are experiments with some worm called C. elegans (they say it would have about 50% of its genes similar to the human’s – differences are sometimes not so great….
And there is much evidence that this principle would work in humans, too. They have calculated that a human would live about 7 years longer if he would eat always “few calories”.
The decreasing life expectancy in the USA is also a proof for this theory – from the opposite site… ;-(
Thanks for the comment Alexander.
I had previously read a few of the studies done on Mice where food intake was sharply restricted. The mice lived much longer than those with normal food intakes.