Intermittent fasting, engineered foods, leptin, and ghrelin evolution, ghrelin, intermittent fasting, leptin, obesity, research Engineered foods are designed by smart people, and the goal is not usually to make you healthy; the goal is to sell as many units as possibl... Read More
You can eat a lot during the Holiday Season and gain no body fat, as long as you also eat little body fat, calorie restriction, dietary fat, fasting, fat loss, Holiday Season, intermittent fasting, palatability, paleo diet, satiety This post has been revised and re-published . The original comments are preserved below. Typically this is done with posts that attract man... Read More
Intermittent fasting as a form of liberation diseases of civilization, evolution, hunter-gatherer, intermittent fasting, research I have been doing a lot of reading over the years on isolated hunter-gatherer populations; see three references at the end of this post, all... Read More
You can eat a lot during the Holiday Season and gain no body fat, as long as you also eat little body fat, calorie restriction, dietary fat, fasting, fat loss, Holiday Season, intermittent fasting, palatability, paleo diet, satiety The evolutionary pressures placed by periods of famine shaped the physiology of most animals, including humans, toward a design that favors... Read More
Strength training plus fasting regularly, and becoming diabetic!? No, it is just compensatory adaptation at work compensatory adaptation, cortisol, diabetes, glucose, glycation, glycogen depletion, growth hormone, HbA1c, insulin, intermittent fasting, research One common outcome of doing glycogen-depleting exercise (e.g., strength training, sprinting) in combination with intermittent fasting is an ... Read More
No fat gain while eating well during the Holiday Season: Palatability isolines, the 14-percent advantage, and nature’s special spice body fat, calorie restriction, dietary fat, fasting, fat loss, Holiday Season, intermittent fasting, paleo diet Like most animals, our Paleolithic ancestors had to regularly undergo short periods of low calorie intake. If they were successful at procur... Read More
Gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time: A more customized approach based on strength training and calorie intake variation body fat, fasting, fat loss, intermittent fasting, muscle gain, muscle loss, protein In the two last posts I discussed the idea of gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time ( ) ( ). This post outlines one approach to mak... Read More
The 14-percent advantage of eating little and then a lot: Putting it in practice BMI, body fat, energy expenditure, fasting, intermittent fasting, NEAT, overfeeding, weight loss In my previous post I argued that the human body may react to “eating big” as it would to overfeeding, increasing energy expenditure by a ce... Read More