Is intermittent fasting the best method of being healthy?

Question

Everyone is talking about the health benefits of intermittent fasting but it is a style that nobody talked before. So my question is do you think intermittent fasting is the best method for diet and to be healthy and is it effective for everyone?

V_Injector · Accepted Answer

Humans are designed to fast and feast.

If you want to get a good idea of what not to do... pay attention to the tenants that fat fucks live by.

Is intermittent fasting the best method of being healthy?

3 meals a day... snacks... then what they eat is like bird food or loaded with sugar. It's like they hate meat. They keep themselves saturated with all kinds of shit going through their blood all day long. It's almost as if they never heard of the concept that our larger brains was caused by switching to meat and cooking it.

Look at the animal kingdom... predators are much smarter, but they don't cook their meat. Anyways...

We were meat heavy in diet, but you can't catch that on the regular. Then there was a split... farmer types grew smaller and had shitty teeth. If you were a Viking or a red-haired green-eyed Kubli Khan Mongloid... meat, blood, dairy... eating plants was for fags.

Intermittent fasting in my opinion is just getting back to normal... most people ate once or maybe twice a day before the farmer types took over. Farming animals was smart, but joining them on eating a bunch of plants was just gay.

Also, pay attention to what kind of meat you have access to in the average grocery store. Usually you'll find nothing but muscle meat. Organ meat will give you vitamin C and all that stuff that's missing in your diet. There really is no need for plants.

Now I'm going to sit back and wait for some pissed off vegan or some fat fuck to attack me. They can go suck a bag of dicks... fags.

WindAtMyBack · Accepted Answer

Absolutely not. Fasting is not the best way to be healthy, it actually harms your health.

There are all kinds of pseudoscience out there that makes claims about diet. There is a serious lack of good science regarding diet and nutrition. I personally think there should be a LOT more funding for nutrition research.

But the current best available science does not back fasting.

The scientists are not trying to hide anything from you. The government is not trying to hide anything from you. When they give advice on the best way to eat, it's because it's the BEST available science.

Please don't fast. Not even for a single day. You should already know how to eat a healthy diet. Nutrition is very complex. But to simplify it, eat more food from the produce section of the store, and less of everything else. In other words, eat your fruits and vegetables, and a little bit of meat - and less of everything else.

The idea behind fasting is to somehow cleanse your body. If you are eating reasonably well in the first place, you should never have to do that. Even if you are eating like crap you shouldn't have to fast - just stop eating like crap.

CupcakeTheDestroyer · Accepted Answer

Intermittent fasting is not the best way to live life nor is it the best way to be healthy. If your goal is weightloss, you monitor your insulin, not limit the amount of food you eat. If your goal is muscle building, changing your diet to be more protein heavy like you would in intermittent fasting can help. If your goal is body building, then you need to start calorie counting to make sure you’re completely depleting your body of all healthy and necessary fats to highlight that muscle definition

sage2021 · Accepted Answer

Just eat a few small meals a day. If you starve yourself you'll be sorry.
The body needs some food each day, even just an 🍎🍏 apple. If you don't it goes into starvation mode.
So when you don't eat Fridays at a time, then took mind says "Ah, my body is getting food again so I better store it in case they do it again. Guess what it stores into? FAT!

GuyAnswersGirls123 · Answer

For me, skipping breakfast always allowed me to set my best PRs in the 100m dash and long jump when I was training and competing on the track team. I did enough experimentation with and without breakfast to conclude this quite confidently that my particular body performs better athletically on something relatively closer to an empty stomach.

I feasted after.

However, I've noticed some people oppositely wired. They perform better if they at least consume something moderate before exercise.

So it seems to be case-by-case. I think in my case, I have a psychological tendency (possibly physiological as well) to begin shutting down some hours after I eat anything more than the lightest snack. It's like my signal to start ending the day, and that's why I think I benefit most from skipping breakfast, having a light lunch, and big dinner.

Other people seem to have the opposite effect where eating energizes them. So they might even benefit the opposite way with heavy breakfast, light lunch, and skip dinner.

It seems to vary a lot to me from individual to individual. Yet IF does definitely help me given my training patterns.

ManOnFire · Answer

It is definitely one of them. It's hard for a lot of people to do mostly because of the determination, but when you do it, it is very good for you and you feel great afterwards. You don't have to do it for a whole 7 days but if you can make it like 3 or 4 even that is good, but by day 3 you might need to start drinking electrolytes to keep your body's minerals up and keep you from passing out.

FreyaRed · Answer

If you want lose weight you have to reduce slowly your calorie supply. Fasting is dangerous, there are medical reason like problems caused due lack of salts and proteins (swelling of fatty tissue) and psychological issues which cause later yo-yo effect.

Sonorous · Answer

I'm with a lot of health professionals when they say it's just a tool. Studies show that nothing beats a healthy diet & reasonable calorie restriction. But intermittent fasting is still a great tool. I do it everyday since I have a big appetite & could easily eat in a surplus if I'm not too careful.

robhazelnut · Answer

Correct nutrients, hydration and exercise improve health and fitness. If you intermittent fast but only eat sucrose-filled donuts, drink regular soda and never lift weights, your body will be neither fit nor healthy (and be in a lot of pain and age quickly), though will be slimmer than if you didn't intermittent fast on the same.

NamerOfStars · Answer

Back in my day, we just called that "skipping breakfast". Insofar as it means starting your day without the initial burst of energy from morning calories, no, it's obviously not, especially if you do something dangerous requiring close attention or exertion.

Vitamins, nutrients, and the right level of calories; it's really quite simple.

SolivagantRises · Answer

Yes absolutely! The best way to let body recover from all the continuous eating/digestion and other vital processes. Body is a machine and it needs time off every single day so that the brain can work on ITSELF rather than working on the food you ate every single hour. Lol.

Whitey_Johnson · Answer

It's useful for arresting the onset of Type II diabetes, and also for reversing Type II diabetes when combined with a true keto/carnivore diet. It's certainly not tor everyone. For example, an athlete could probably not sustain adequate energy levels by eating only within an 8 hour window each day. And young people who are still growing need a steady supply of nutrients throughout the day. But it's a great strategy for someone who is middle-aged and needs to reduce body fat.

desidoll · Answer

I have tried it and it worked, yes but I know I couldn’t continue it long-term. I started to crave for food even more and that’s not healthy. I did it for 6 months and got back to my original calories.

JacobJordan · Answer

Biochemist. Actually yes intermittent fasting can be vastly beneficial however you need to consult a doctor to ensure you do so without risking any negative effects. If you are not already in a stable spot when it comes to vitamins and minerals fasting can be quite dangerous. In addition once you stop fasting don't make the mistake of rushing a complex meal the sudden influx of numerous vitamins, minerals, heavy metals, fatty acids, etc can put you into something akin to shock

Twalli · Answer

DO NOT do this. Changing you calorie intake and exercise routine permanently is better.

Eating a lot of fiber also helps. I needed to cut weight for wrestling my senior year and succeed because of having a full fiber diet. This was to lose 11% of my body weight, so I don't recommend this unless you're morbidly obese. You can't digest fiber, so you get the nutrients from it and then it leaves your body. Since your body isn't storing any of it, your weight decreases.

Anonymous · Answer

I am Muslim. I fast for 1 month during Ramadan. But let me tell you this, no matter what type of fasting you do, you cannot lose weight if you do not exercise. I experienced this in my own fast.

jennifer_bloom · Answer

It depends cause different people get different results from it. I find me personally, I lose weight faster when I combine vitamin B1 with fat. I don't lose weight that fast on fasting diets.

NathanDavis · Answer

healthy is different for everyone... not one thing that applies to everyone the same

BoopBoopBeep · Answer

No the best method is to not eat a bunch of shite and get off the couch.

bobby_bush_eater · Answer

There really is no best. It works for some people and for some it doesn't. I really liked it when I worked an overnight shift but it didn't change my weight (I'm small anyways).

AngryCarl · Answer

It probably is but I get too hungry. Man evolved as a hunter so having food available without effort definitely isn't a healthy situation, especially when that food is packed full of salt and sugar.

laly520 · Answer

I tried it before not best but helpful

OtterMan68 · Answer

Cut out added sugars as much as possible. Sugar is poison. You can get sugars from fresh fruits. Avoid white flour too, and be sure to burn calories.

Sameone · Answer

For Muslim people yes And they are now in month of Ramadan

Chelsdope0 · Answer

Fasting helps me psychologically with discipline

Anonymous · Answer

Yes, I think fasting is good in any form.

butterly248 · Answer

For some people yes

Jennz6 · Answer

I’m sure!

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