IF Tip: Make sure you get enough quality calories in
I am sure if you tell anyone that you are doing any type of fasting they will respond “But that isn’t healthy to starve yourself”. No, of course starving yourself is not healthy, but IF is not about starving yourself. In fact you can still get in enough healthy calories in your eating windows. Make sure your IF plan does not leave you with little calories for too long. Like any diet that is just low on calories, you …
Q: What’s the difference between IF and CR
A: IF is NOT about excessively restricting your calories when you are eating. IF however has been shown to give all the benefits associated with CR (see resources for all studies) PLUS has none of the drawbacks to CR and allows you to not be hungry all the time, shown better retention of muscle mass while decreasing fat loss and does a better job to decrease insulin resistance factors (which are important to all disease prevention plans)
Q: Which is better? 15-18h hours daily fasting or 24hour fasts a few …
I was recommended recently a book called “Better Off – Flipping the Switch on Technology” by a blog reader (props to Rich). So I gave it a read and it was pretty interesting. The main story behind it being a graduate of MIT “bastion of technological advancement” and his wife decide to give up everything and go live in an Amish based community (using as little technology as possible). It’s a pretty interesting read and just wanted to quote a few things from it below:
What was technology’s role in the present …
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