If you want to lose a few pounds of excess weight, but don’t want to eat less and move more, then you are looking for impossible solutions to the problem, according to old-fashioned nutritionists. Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies think differently. They believe that you can lose weight not by reducing the amount of food you eat, but by eating it for a shorter period of time.
The concept of this approach is not new. Martin Berghahn has experimented successfully with this approach. This is called intermittent fasting – eating only within an 8-hour period or less. Usually a person eats food within a 16-hour period.
The idea behind intermittent fasting is that humans are evolved to search for food for most of the day. That is, it takes almost the entire day to obtain food, and not a large amount of time is allocated for meals. Naturally, current food intake standards are radically different from this approach. We start eating early in the morning and finish at the end of the day.
Humans are actually great at burning fatty acids, as this mechanism is inherent in us along with nature, but if we want to develop this ability we need to spend more time fasting.
The researchers tested the theory in mice. They were given regular food and high-calorie food containing excess fat. Mice in half of both groups were allowed to eat the entire time, while the others were only allowed to eat for an 8-hour period.
After four months, it was discovered that those mice that ate within 8 hours were slimmer.
Thus, it turns out that if you eat food in a short period of time throughout the day, you can get rid of extra pounds. Whether this can be linked with bodybuilding or fitness is a good question, but science is science.
