Losing weight without rearranging your gastrointestinal anatomy carries advantages beyond just the lack of surgical risk. The surgical community objects to the characterization of bariatric surgery as internal…
Read more Is Surgery Necessary to Reverse Diabetes? | NutritionFacts.orgThe spice cumin can work as well as orlistat, the “anal leakage” obesity drug. In my video Friday Favorites: Benefits of Black Cumin for Weight Loss, I discussed…
Read more Lose Weight with Cumin and Saffron? | NutritionFacts.orgHow can we use sensory-specific satiety to our advantage? When we eat the same foods over and over, we become habituated to them and end up liking them…
Read more Taking Advantage of Sensory-Specific Satiety | NutritionFacts.orgBig Food uses our hard-wired drive for dietary diversity against us. How did we evolve to solve the daunting task of selecting a diet that supplies all the…
Read more Dietary Diversity and Overeating | NutritionFacts.orgI debunk the myth of protein as the most satiating macronutrient. The importance of satiety is underscored by a rare genetic condition known as Prader-Willi syndrome. Children with…
Read more Hijacking Our Appetites | NutritionFacts.orgI dive into one of the most fascinating series of studies I’ve ever come across. Anyone can lose weight by eating less food. Anyone can be starved thin.…
Read more Lose 200 Lbs Without Feeling Hungry | NutritionFacts.orgWe can raise BDNF levels in our brain by fasting and exercising, as well as by eating and avoiding certain foods. There is accumulating evidence that brain-derived neurotrophic…
Read more Boosting BDNF Levels in Our Brain to Treat Depression | NutritionFacts.orgCalories eaten in the morning count less than calories eaten in the evening, and they’re healthier, too. Time-restricted feeding, where you limit the same amount of eating to…
Read more The Pros of Early Time-Restricted Eating | NutritionFacts.orgAre there benefits to giving yourself a bigger daily break from eating? The reason many blood tests are taken after an overnight fast is that meals can tip our…
Read more What the Science Says About Time-Restricted Eating | NutritionFacts.orgWhat are the effects of eating only five days a week or following a fasting-mimicking diet five days a month? Instead of eating every other day, what if you…
Read more A Look at the 5:2 Diet and the Fasting-Mimicking Diet | NutritionFacts.orgAlternate-day modified fasting is put to the test for lifespan extension. Is it true that alternate-day calorie restriction prolongs life? Doctors have anecdotally attributed improvements in a variety…
Read more Is Our Life Expectancy Extended by Intermittent Fasting? | NutritionFacts.orgEating every other day can raise your cholesterol. Are there any downsides to fasting every other day? For example, might go all day without eating impair your ability to…
Read more How Safe Is Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting? | NutritionFacts.orgDoes eating every other day prevent the metabolic slowing that accompanies weight loss, or does it improve compliance over constant, day-to-day caloric restriction? Rather than cutting calories day…
Read more Putting Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting to the Test | NutritionFacts.orgWhy should fasts lasting longer than 24 hours and particularly for three or more days only be done under the supervision of a health professional and preferably in…
Read more The Safety of Fasting to Lose Weight | NutritionFacts.orgLike the keto diet, fasting for one or two weeks can actually slow the loss of body fat rather than accelerate it. Fasting obviously causes consistent, dramatic weight…
Read more Does Fasting Benefit Weight Loss? | NutritionFacts.orgFor more than a century, fasting has been used as a weight-loss treatment. I’ve talked about the benefits of caloric restriction. Well, the greatest caloric restriction is getting…
Read more Putting the Benefits of Fasting for Weight Loss to the Test | NutritionFacts.orgHow may we preserve bone and mass on a low-calorie diet? One of the most consistent benefits of calorie restriction is that blood pressure improves in as little as…
Read more Any Pitfalls with Restricting Calories? | NutritionFacts.orgThough a bane for dieters, a slower metabolism may actually be a good thing. We’ve known for more than a century that calorie restriction can increase the lifespan…
Read more Restricting Calories for Longevity? | NutritionFacts.orgYou may lose a pound of fat by skipping just 10 calories a day or as many as 55, depending on whether you’re improving food quality or restricting…
Read more The New Rule for Calories per Pound of Weight Loss | NutritionFacts.orgWhat are the metabolic and behavioral adaptations that slow weight loss? Thanks to millions of years of evolution hard-wiring us to survive scarcity, our body has compensatory survival mechanisms…
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