Intermittent Fasting (IF)
Explore the positive health effects of IF.
Unlike traditional diets that often call for a dramatic change in what you eat, intermittent fasting shifts the focus to when you eat.
It’s a way of scheduling your meals in an effort to speed metabolism and maximize weight loss and fat burning results. With a growing segment of the population advocating the positive health effects of intermittent fasting, more people are turning to this eating approach to not only lose weight and fat, but also improve the way they feel and perform. In addition to helping individuals achieve their personal health goals, many claim that an intermittent fasting program is easier to follow than more traditional diets.
Common Intermittent Fasting Diets
5:2 Diet
Perhaps the most popular intermittent fasting approach, this diet calls for limiting daily calories (500 max. for men, 600 max. for women) for 2 non-consecutive days per week. For the other 5 days of the week normal, healthy eating is encouraged.
16:8 Diet
Similar to the Warrior Diet (see next panel), this eating approach also limits the number of hours you can eat each day. Here, however, the individual has a longer eating window of 8 hours per day, while the remaining 16 hours call for a complete fast. So, for example, if you ate dinner at 8:00 p.m. you wouldn’t be able to eat again until noon the following day.
Warrior Diet
Like other popular types of intermittent fasting programs, the Warrior Diet emphasizes when to eat. In this case, individuals will fast for 20 hours each day and have just a 4-hour window each night where they can consume a large meal consisting of healthy fats, proteins and vegetables. Calories are not considered during this diet.
Fasting Benefits Continued
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While the requirements for these intermittent fasting programs may be easy for some to satisfy, it can still prove challenging for many. One way to help bridge the gap between meals is to eat a Fast Bar®. Not only does it help to offset feelings of hunger, but it nourishes you without breaking your fast*.
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*Benefits seen in a randomized, controlled study in 108 adults after a 15-hour overnight fast comparing the glucose and ketone results every hour for 4 hours in the Fast Bar group, breakfast group and water-fast group. Data on file.
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When implemented correctly, intermittent fasting can be a powerful and effective tool for losing weight and reducing body fat.
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Prolonged Fast additional benefits
Beyond Intermittent Fasting
Prolonged fasts (fasts of 3 consecutive days or more) give additional benefits. Prolonged fasts actually trigger a process called autophagy which is the clean up of old, worn out cellular components and debris. Cellular rejuvenation and renewal are the outcomes of this process.
Now you can get the many of the benefits of a prolonged fast without giving up food with ProLon, the first and only patented 5-Day Fasting Mimicking Diet. ProLon gently guides your body into a fasting state to get many of the health benefits that come from long fasts while enjoying delicious meals and tasty snacks. Even better, in a clinical study of ProLon used once a month for three consecutive months, ProLon helped to preserve lean body mass while reducing body fat (especially visceral, or belly fat). Users also reported feeling more energy, clarity, and focus during the end and after a ProLon cycle.
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