Intermittent fasting has greatly increased in popularity in recent years. Fasting in various forms has been around for centuries as being integral to certain religious practices. Intermittent fasting or IF is a more recent phenomenon, but not as recent as you might expect. As … [Read more...]
Can Intermittent Fasting Save Your Heart? by Jerry Brainum 8/20
Although various forms of fasting are in vogue, fasting in one form or another has been around for centuries. Fasting has been an integral part of both religious and medical practices since ancient times. Fasting for medical purposes was often suggested by ancient Chinese, … [Read more...]
The Best Weight-Loss Diet: What Does the Science Show? by Jerry Brainum 11/19
Those who seek to lose excessive body fat are faced with a plethora of diet choices. Each diet has its advocates who proclaim that their diet is the most effective at promoting body fat loss. And there is rarely a time when another new fad diet surfaces, often promising to be the … [Read more...]
Is Intermittent Dieting the Best Fat-loss Diet for Athletes and Bodybuilders? by Jerry Brainum
We are constantly besieged with new diets that all claim to be the ultimate cure for excessive body fat levels. And increased body fat is a major health problem. Americans have been getting fatter each year since the 1970s. Much of this increased rate of obesity is … [Read more...]
Intermittent Fasting: New information and its effects on adding muscle mass and losing body fat by Jerry Brainum
Although I covered the health effects of intermittent fasting (IF) in the October 2015 issue of Applied Metabolics, new information has been recently published about IF that is highly relevant to those who seek both body fat loss and added … [Read more...]
Staying Hungrier (Intermittent fasting truths) by Jerry Brainum
Perhaps no one was born was a more apt surname than Linda Hazzard. Although Hazzard never attended medical school, she was nonetheless licensed to practice medicine in the state of Washington. She operated a sanitarium there in a town called Olalla, and she … [Read more...]