Is a Fast a Thing of the Past?
Issue #11 “The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle.” Fit Tip: Fasting Fasting (going long periods of time without eating) is no new practice; but it has come into the spotlight again as a tool with health benefits. While there certainly are some health benefits to fasting, the way in which this tool is used is usually ineffective. Fasting as a means to lose weight is never something I personally recommend. This often leads to obsessing even more about food, losing precious muscle mass, or binge eating when the fast is broken. However, it has become pretty clear that the body does need a break from eating and digesting to perform some other maintenance processes within. Some people refer to these shorter breaks from eating as intermittent fasting . Intermittent fasting is a pretty loose term as one person might use it to say they skip breakfast and another person might restrict eating to the hours of 2pm to 6pm each day. The practical way to spa...