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23.10.2022

Intermittent fasting makes your life better

At the moment, of all alternative weight loss strategies, intermittent fasting may have the best papers. Intermittent fasting not only leads to a decrease in body fat and improves your health, but also appears to be quite doable. Moreover, intermittent fasting improves your quality of life.

Study
Researchers from the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany, had 30 healthy subjects aged 18-59 years fast for 3 months. This meant that the subjects were allowed to eat whatever they wanted during an 8-hour period of the 24-hour period, but not outside this time frame.

During the experiment, the researchers measured the psychological functioning of the test subjects with questionnaires.

Results
For most study participants, part-time fasting was doable. Only 14.3 percent of the subjects stopped halfway through the trial.

Among other things, the researchers determined the quality of life of the study participants using the Short Form Health 36 (SF-36). Based on the results, they were able to compile the figure below. Of the 8 measured aspects of quality of life, quality of life increased significantly in 6 aspects.

The researchers also used the Fatigue Assessment Scale to determine the extent to which the study participants suffered from physical and mental fatigue. Scores improved during the experiment.

Conclusion
"Intermittent fasting according to the moderate 16:8 h regimen leads to improvements in the quality of life, especially physical and mental fatigue, while maintaining a good safety profile", the researchers write.

"Intermittent fasting has proven to be feasible in this trial."

"Intermittent fasting can be considered a very beneficial diet for people suffering from fatigue in stressful job."

Source:
Nutrients. 2022 Oct 10;14(19):4216.

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