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Like most animals, our Paleolithic ancestors had to regularly undergo short periods of low calorie intake. If they were successful at procur...

Labels: body fat, calorie restriction, dietary fat, fasting, fat loss, Holiday Season, intermittent fasting, paleo diet

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Daniel James Shellabarger (better known as Daniel Suelo) is portrayed in the bestselling 2012 nonfiction book by Mark Sundeen titled “The Ma...

Labels: comfortable furniture, Daniel Suelo, depression, fasting, interesting people, intermittent fasting, simple living

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In my previous post I argued that the human body may react to “eating big” as it would to overfeeding, increasing energy expenditure by a ce...

Labels: BMI, body fat, energy expenditure, fasting, intermittent fasting, NEAT, overfeeding, weight loss

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When you look at the literature on overfeeding, you see a number over and over again – 14 percent. That is approximately the increase in ene...

Labels: BMI, body fat, energy expenditure, fasting, intermittent fasting, NEAT, overfeeding, starvation, weight loss

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In the two last posts I discussed the idea of gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time ( ) ( ). This post outlines one approach to mak...

Labels: body fat, fasting, fat loss, intermittent fasting, muscle gain, muscle loss, protein

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This is such a common phenomenon that you’d expect to see it discussed more often – people fasting for a non-negligible number of hours and ...

Labels: body fat, fasting, fat loss, waist circumference

Posted by Admin | 7:27 AM

When it comes to losing fat and maintaining muscle, at the same time, there are no shortcuts. The process generally has to be slow to be hea...

Labels: body fat, fasting, glycogen depletion, muscle gain, research

Posted by Admin | 10:48 AM

Body fat is not an inert deposit of energy. It can be seen as a distributed endocrine organ. Body fat cells, or adipocytes, secrete a number...

Labels: adiponectin, body fat, fasting, glycogen depletion, inflammation, intermittent fasting, leptin, obesity, research, resistin

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This is an issue that often comes up in online health discussions, and was the topic of a conversation I had the other day with a friend abo...

Labels: fasting, intermittent fasting, muscle gain, muscle loss, research

Posted by Admin | 10:57 AM

A recent post  on the Primal Wisdom blog led me to do go back to some of the research on an approach to dieting that I tried myself, with so...

Labels: fasting, inflammation, intermittent fasting, Ramadan, research