Showing posts with label fasting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fasting. Show all posts
Monday, May 19, 2014
Interesting Fasting Documentary
Hi,
Ive been watching a documentary video on Youtube that was produced by the BBC and stars Michael Mosley. It is called, "BBC Horizon 2012: Eat, Fast and Live Longer." It appears that Michael is one of those guys who makes a living trying out bizarre things and filming it for the BBC. What he had on his mind when he did this one was his own health.
Here is a link in case you would like to see it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=Pfna7nV7WaM
There were two approaches to weight loss and improving health that he presented that I am interested in. One of them is very similar to what I am already doing which is to fast for one day a week, but Michael is fasting for two days a week (not in a row) and eating normally the rest of the time with no actual dietary restrictions. It seems that when you start fasting in this manner your body gets used to eating smaller meals and you dont actually overeat to compensate on the days in between. Also the fast day actually includes one meal of about five hundred to six hundred calories depending on whether you are male or female, so it is not actually a total abstinence of food on the fasting days. (Right now I am actually fasting for 24 hours one day a week with no food for the duration.)
The other approach involves alternating fast and feast days. With this approach, you also eat one five to six-hundred calorie meal every other day. In between you eat what you want. I suppose if you simply did not count Sunday as one of the days, you could always fast on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and Feast on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday -- leaving Sunday as simply a day off which will obviously be a feasting day for the normal human being. This then works out to be three fasting days per week on alternating days. I like the idea of managing it this way because it turns into a regular schedule that is easier to remember and manage if you always do the same thing on the same day of the week.
One of the things that attracts me to the alternating day fast is that I might be able to lose weight faster and also will not have to stress about what I eat on the feasting days. I could simply eat normally for me.
Another thing that attracts me to the fasting protocols is the idea that your health actually improves because you are eating less. Blood sugar levels normalize. Fat begins to disappear. Cholesterol gets into good ranges and IGF-1 levels reduce so your chances of getting cancer and heart disease drastically drop down to much lower levels. According to more than one of the researchers in the film there really is no better or faster way to improve your health than with fasting.
I dropped off a lot of water weight a couple of weeks ago and do not seem to be putting it back on. Yet. I did notice today that I seem to be a bit swollen. I believe it may be due to what I think is a yeast infection as a result of having taken an antibiotic. It is quite uncomfortable and Ive been doubling up on probiotics to try to get past it. Im beginning to think I might call my doctor to see if she might give me some fluconazole to speed up the process and reduce the discomfort. It not only affects me in the normal female way, but in my sinuses and my eyes, too. I have one more thing Im going to try tonight and if that does not work, Ill definitely call my doctor tomorrow.
I am considering trying out the three days of fasting per week to see if I can (or will) comply with it, and if I do, wondering if it will take some more of this weight off at a faster pace. Im not in a hurry, Im just tired of wasting time. Ive been at this for going onto two years and have only lost 45 pounds. I want more and I dont want to be held back any more. I see others who lose twice and three times that much in a third of the time, so surely, I should be able to move along at a better rate than what Ive been doing. Im not interested in fad diets, I want something I can maintain for the long haul -- perhaps the rest of my life.
I suppose if I cannot do the three days per week, surely I could do the two. Perhaps I could alternate weeks and do two fast days one week and three the next, making sure to eat healthy in between. That is just me thinking. I seem to get carried away some times. Since I just completed a twenty-four hour fast, perhaps this is a good time to start. I will have to give it some more thought and preparation.
I need to iron out the details like when do the fasts start and when do they finish. I have the idea that what they are talking about is
Monday: sleep/one meal/sleep (all fasting days)
Tuesday: sleep/ eat normally / sleep (all normal days including Sunday)
Right now, with the one-day fast, I time it from the last meal on one day to the same time the next day. It seems that no matter how you calculate it you never really go an entire day without actually eating something. It is just a matter of deciding when you are going to eat your one meal on the fast day because there will be a few hours between eating and sleeping that will need to be managed consciously in order to make it work.
On the fasting days you can drink water or plain tea with no sugar or milk. I suppose for those who drink coffee they could probably do coffee without much trouble, too. Im not a coffee drinker so Ill stick to water and tea. Hot tea seems to satisfy my tummy. I also chew Xylitol gum on my fast days, too. So it boils down to water, tea, and gum for me during the hours Im not eating. Having one meal a day seems, from this perspective of not having yet tried it, to be perhaps easier than the twenty-four hours. But on second thought, perhaps it is not, because the twenty-four hours start on a day when food was eaten and end on a day that food will be eaten so doing the sleep/one meal/sleep may actually turn into more hours of not eating. It just seems more doable because you can eat that one meal -- and you can have your one meal at any time you choose.
So how do you plan the exercise? I usually exercise on the days Ive listed as fasting days, so I suppose I would want to eat my one meal after I exercise. From the reading Ive been doing I find that most experts advise that it is best to exercise during a fast and then eat right after the exercise. I guess I wont know how it will go until I try it.
Another thing. There were no discussions of what kind of food to eat, except for one man who suggested moving to more of a plant based diet, but not advocating vegetarianism or veganism. Eating meat is OK -- just a little less of it, and a few more plants. I have some of my own ideas about that, as you may well know, so I will continue to eat what I believe is healthy for me.
I know what my body reacts to: starchy carbs, wheat and grains, fruit, dairy, and mixed nuts, basically, so I will continue to limit those things. This still leaves an entire array of things I can eat from salad veggies to beef, pork and eggs. I can have fish, but I dont like fish, so "fish" means tuna to me. Occasionally I have some sardines. Chicken is good. I like to make chicken/vegetable soup.
I wanted to buy some more curry powder from Sams and discovered that they dont carry it anymore. I guess Ill have to search for the Tones brand on the internet and get it shipped to my house.
Anyway. As you can see Im still open for new diet adventures and always have the weight loss goal in mind. My next target is 299. I want to be under 300.
My blood pressure seems to be settling down at a lower level than I had been experiencing and Im happy with that.
Check out that video. I thought it was really interesting. (see link above)
Love you,
Be back soon,
Marcia
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Ive been watching a documentary video on Youtube that was produced by the BBC and stars Michael Mosley. It is called, "BBC Horizon 2012: Eat, Fast and Live Longer." It appears that Michael is one of those guys who makes a living trying out bizarre things and filming it for the BBC. What he had on his mind when he did this one was his own health.
Here is a link in case you would like to see it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=Pfna7nV7WaM
There were two approaches to weight loss and improving health that he presented that I am interested in. One of them is very similar to what I am already doing which is to fast for one day a week, but Michael is fasting for two days a week (not in a row) and eating normally the rest of the time with no actual dietary restrictions. It seems that when you start fasting in this manner your body gets used to eating smaller meals and you dont actually overeat to compensate on the days in between. Also the fast day actually includes one meal of about five hundred to six hundred calories depending on whether you are male or female, so it is not actually a total abstinence of food on the fasting days. (Right now I am actually fasting for 24 hours one day a week with no food for the duration.)
The other approach involves alternating fast and feast days. With this approach, you also eat one five to six-hundred calorie meal every other day. In between you eat what you want. I suppose if you simply did not count Sunday as one of the days, you could always fast on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and Feast on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday -- leaving Sunday as simply a day off which will obviously be a feasting day for the normal human being. This then works out to be three fasting days per week on alternating days. I like the idea of managing it this way because it turns into a regular schedule that is easier to remember and manage if you always do the same thing on the same day of the week.
One of the things that attracts me to the alternating day fast is that I might be able to lose weight faster and also will not have to stress about what I eat on the feasting days. I could simply eat normally for me.
Another thing that attracts me to the fasting protocols is the idea that your health actually improves because you are eating less. Blood sugar levels normalize. Fat begins to disappear. Cholesterol gets into good ranges and IGF-1 levels reduce so your chances of getting cancer and heart disease drastically drop down to much lower levels. According to more than one of the researchers in the film there really is no better or faster way to improve your health than with fasting.
I dropped off a lot of water weight a couple of weeks ago and do not seem to be putting it back on. Yet. I did notice today that I seem to be a bit swollen. I believe it may be due to what I think is a yeast infection as a result of having taken an antibiotic. It is quite uncomfortable and Ive been doubling up on probiotics to try to get past it. Im beginning to think I might call my doctor to see if she might give me some fluconazole to speed up the process and reduce the discomfort. It not only affects me in the normal female way, but in my sinuses and my eyes, too. I have one more thing Im going to try tonight and if that does not work, Ill definitely call my doctor tomorrow.
I am considering trying out the three days of fasting per week to see if I can (or will) comply with it, and if I do, wondering if it will take some more of this weight off at a faster pace. Im not in a hurry, Im just tired of wasting time. Ive been at this for going onto two years and have only lost 45 pounds. I want more and I dont want to be held back any more. I see others who lose twice and three times that much in a third of the time, so surely, I should be able to move along at a better rate than what Ive been doing. Im not interested in fad diets, I want something I can maintain for the long haul -- perhaps the rest of my life.
I suppose if I cannot do the three days per week, surely I could do the two. Perhaps I could alternate weeks and do two fast days one week and three the next, making sure to eat healthy in between. That is just me thinking. I seem to get carried away some times. Since I just completed a twenty-four hour fast, perhaps this is a good time to start. I will have to give it some more thought and preparation.
I need to iron out the details like when do the fasts start and when do they finish. I have the idea that what they are talking about is
Monday: sleep/one meal/sleep (all fasting days)
Tuesday: sleep/ eat normally / sleep (all normal days including Sunday)
Right now, with the one-day fast, I time it from the last meal on one day to the same time the next day. It seems that no matter how you calculate it you never really go an entire day without actually eating something. It is just a matter of deciding when you are going to eat your one meal on the fast day because there will be a few hours between eating and sleeping that will need to be managed consciously in order to make it work.
On the fasting days you can drink water or plain tea with no sugar or milk. I suppose for those who drink coffee they could probably do coffee without much trouble, too. Im not a coffee drinker so Ill stick to water and tea. Hot tea seems to satisfy my tummy. I also chew Xylitol gum on my fast days, too. So it boils down to water, tea, and gum for me during the hours Im not eating. Having one meal a day seems, from this perspective of not having yet tried it, to be perhaps easier than the twenty-four hours. But on second thought, perhaps it is not, because the twenty-four hours start on a day when food was eaten and end on a day that food will be eaten so doing the sleep/one meal/sleep may actually turn into more hours of not eating. It just seems more doable because you can eat that one meal -- and you can have your one meal at any time you choose.
So how do you plan the exercise? I usually exercise on the days Ive listed as fasting days, so I suppose I would want to eat my one meal after I exercise. From the reading Ive been doing I find that most experts advise that it is best to exercise during a fast and then eat right after the exercise. I guess I wont know how it will go until I try it.
Another thing. There were no discussions of what kind of food to eat, except for one man who suggested moving to more of a plant based diet, but not advocating vegetarianism or veganism. Eating meat is OK -- just a little less of it, and a few more plants. I have some of my own ideas about that, as you may well know, so I will continue to eat what I believe is healthy for me.
I know what my body reacts to: starchy carbs, wheat and grains, fruit, dairy, and mixed nuts, basically, so I will continue to limit those things. This still leaves an entire array of things I can eat from salad veggies to beef, pork and eggs. I can have fish, but I dont like fish, so "fish" means tuna to me. Occasionally I have some sardines. Chicken is good. I like to make chicken/vegetable soup.
I wanted to buy some more curry powder from Sams and discovered that they dont carry it anymore. I guess Ill have to search for the Tones brand on the internet and get it shipped to my house.
Anyway. As you can see Im still open for new diet adventures and always have the weight loss goal in mind. My next target is 299. I want to be under 300.
My blood pressure seems to be settling down at a lower level than I had been experiencing and Im happy with that.
Check out that video. I thought it was really interesting. (see link above)
Love you,
Be back soon,
Marcia
Monday, December 2, 2013
Body Stay Healthy During Fasting
Body Stay Healthy During Fasting | Month of Ramadan has arrived. Time for us to dampen lust until it was time to break. In the month of fasting, the body will continue to lose body fluids because the activity is still running, but without the intake of food or drink for more than 12 hours. So do not be surprised if you feel thirsty and throat feels very dry during fasting, because the body started having symptoms of dehydration.
Why would that be? In fact, 60% of the human body consists of fluids. When running light activity, the daily loss of body fluid is 2.5 liters. Lost body fluids should be replaced by fluid intake in the same amount. But it can not be done when you fast, do not you?
1. Consumption of foods nutritionally complete and balanced, the time of dawn and fasting. Make sure all the nutrients the body needs can be met.
2. Do a little exercise for movement and stretching on a regular basis, it is better done the afternoon before the break the fast, so that the bodys fluid needs can be met soon. With exercise, the bodys blood circulation will run smoothly, so the body feels more fit.
3. Do not let you leave the meal. Remember, the dawn/sahur is the time for you to provide nutrition to the body. The food you eat when dawn/sahur is a fuel to generate energy for the body.
4. To restore vitality to your body, after the move all day, make sure you get quality sleep for 8 hours per day. Adequate rest is able to restore fitness.
5. Increase your fluid intake the time of dawn and fasting. Drink isotonic drink, the drink containing ions with a composition similar to body fluids. POCARI SWEAT is isotonic drink that works to restore the bodys fluid and ions that lost. "POCARI SWEAT" is a good drink for consumption, because it is free of preservatives, artificial sweeteners, soda and caffeine.
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Why would that be? In fact, 60% of the human body consists of fluids. When running light activity, the daily loss of body fluid is 2.5 liters. Lost body fluids should be replaced by fluid intake in the same amount. But it can not be done when you fast, do not you?
Few tips to keep your Body Stay Healthy During Fasting of Ramadan, Look below:
1. Consumption of foods nutritionally complete and balanced, the time of dawn and fasting. Make sure all the nutrients the body needs can be met.
2. Do a little exercise for movement and stretching on a regular basis, it is better done the afternoon before the break the fast, so that the bodys fluid needs can be met soon. With exercise, the bodys blood circulation will run smoothly, so the body feels more fit.
3. Do not let you leave the meal. Remember, the dawn/sahur is the time for you to provide nutrition to the body. The food you eat when dawn/sahur is a fuel to generate energy for the body.
4. To restore vitality to your body, after the move all day, make sure you get quality sleep for 8 hours per day. Adequate rest is able to restore fitness.
5. Increase your fluid intake the time of dawn and fasting. Drink isotonic drink, the drink containing ions with a composition similar to body fluids. POCARI SWEAT is isotonic drink that works to restore the bodys fluid and ions that lost. "POCARI SWEAT" is a good drink for consumption, because it is free of preservatives, artificial sweeteners, soda and caffeine.
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Fasting danger Menu
There are various, unhealthy diet are often consumed for those who break the fast, even the food menu is not balanced with a healthy diet. I have clarified the types of foods commonly consumed by people fasting would be bad if it is not balanced with a healthy diet and also the dangers it causes.
1. Beverages Ice
I can guess, every time my friend waiting for maghrib prayer times, definitely my friend already prepared all the water ice in front of the eyes or at least perceived cold water can eliminate hunger pal gentlemen. When cold drinks up in the throat, definitely feel the freshness plus pal pal drink for iftar. But my friend did not know, if we break the fast with a cool drink when the stomach is empty, then the rest will be discharged gastric shocked and unintended consequences will arise.
2. Food and drinks are sweet
Not that we are forbidden to break the fast with sweet, quite the contrary Prophet Muhammad himself recommended to break the fast with a date. Food and sweet drinks here means is all the food and drinks that are deliberately made sweet using ingredients such as sugar. For instance syrup, compote, ice mix, and so forth.
If the buddy break their fast with food and drinks were deliberately made sweet, just imagine the calories into the body again pal do pal added this habit for 30 days. If ane see, most people will act brutally breaking the fast by eating everything sweet in sight.
Energy instead of my friend got, instead of blood sugar and body weight will go up because of the sugar itself is a simple carbohydrate that will soon be digested at that time.
3. Fatty foods
Excessive eating fatty foods such as fried foods, coconut compote, and so forth, could be a problem if my friend does not balance with fruits and vegetables. When my friend all the excessive eating these foods, the fat will be stored in the body during fasting plus it slows metabolism conditions. This resulted in a hard fat buddy to split, so the weight that had been expected to fall even increased dramatically. Moreover, if the lazy habit of fasting in the month of guarded, such as sleeping all day, watching TV and playing games for hours and others.
And if my friend is constantly eating, the body will be full of fat and blood pressure may go up. Even if the fat that accumulates clog arteries, the risk of heart disease could spread to.
That range of food and drink which has become a habit to be consumed during fasting which, if consumed in excessive amounts and are not offset by eating a healthy diet, then the consequences would be fatal. Prophet himself taught should do everything not excessive and to fill the stomach was no room space, a third for water, one-third for air, and one-third for food. Read also the benefits of dates to break the fast.May be useful
Friday, November 1, 2013
Secrets Why Fasting Can Make Ageless
Many people are vying to come to a beauty salon or a plastic surgeon in order to look alluring and youthful even have to spend a lot because the cost did not want any wrinkles on the face. Though young and old are sunnatullah that must be experienced.
Actually, for those who want to stay young, no need to spend a lot of money to pay for beauty services or to purchase beauty products. Enough to take advantage of the fasting month. What is the scientific evidence?
Fasting will reduce or suspend physiological processes or metabolism in our body, especially in the digestive tract. Termination of the metabolic processes that take four series of processes that have a major impact on health.
When someone bepuasa mean it, first to limit the amount of food entering the digestive tract. Both he also has lowered the intensity of the digestive system.
And third, with the decline in the labor intensity, fell also the presence of toxins in the body, both endotoxins (toxins from the body itself) and exotoxin (toxins from outside the body). Fourth, the reduced material must be ingested will also make our bodies do not force yourself to secrete hormones and digestive enzymes on a large scale.
Imagine instead if Buddy did not fast? To be sure all the food that enters the body must digest. Inevitably, we will force our digestive organs to work harder.
Already a common understanding among the experts, which is referred to in essence is ageless aging process is inhibited. Among several theories of aging is the most famous one is the free radical theory that emerged in the 1950s.
Theory it reads, "if in our bodies by free radicals, the free radicals that are mobile (cell character) will destroy the cell wall. Destruction of the cell wall of aging will accelerate."
Fasting was potent protect cell walls. Cell wall can be maintained because there is no free radical or reduced because of fasting, then a young man "
There is a study which revealed that the fasting person, there will be reduction of MDA (melondealdehida) or free radicals are significantly up to 90%. Along with that, fasting increases antioxidant production by up to 15%.
So on one hand it was trimmed free radicals, on the other hand the enemies of free radicals or antioxidants improved. So we do not have to wonder anymore why fasting can make diligent young. see also why bad breath while fasting.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
8 Types of Fruit are Recommended During Fasting and Saur
Glucose in dates that we eat when breaking the fast would turn into fructose, then directly absorbed through the digestive system to water the body thirst for energy. Especially the networks that are essentially dependent on the supply of high-energy, such as brain cells, nerve cells, red blood cells and the cells of the spine.
In addition to glucose, dates also contain a certain amount of fat, protein, and some vitamins such as vitamins A, B2, B12. Dates also contain several minerals, especially calcium, sulfate, sodium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, fluorine, brass, manganese, cobalt, zinc, as well as a number of cellulose.
In addition to dates, some other kind of fruit is also recommended to be consumed during the fasting of Ramadan. Below are eight types of fruits are recommended to always present in the dawn and breaking fast menu:
1. Cantaloupe
Cantaloupe contains a lot of vitamin A. Sweet taste in cantaloupe has absorption function or perform absorption in the intestine that is often caused by eating a hurry so that food is not chewed properly. In addition, eating cantaloupe also helps absorb substances that are not needed from eating a lot of spicy foods, drugs precipitate, even overcoming nausea because of stress.
2. Bananas
The content of the banana fruit such as vitamins A, B1, B2 and C can help reduce stomach acid. Because it can help maintain water balance in the body, the banana is suitable for consumption by people who are fasting.
3. Papaya
Papaya contains vitamin C and provitamin A fiber that can help break down food in the digestive system and make a steady diet of digestive tract smoothly. Constipation problem will terasatasi.
4. Apple
Apples are loaded with vitamin A, B and C. Apples can help lower blood cholesterol levels and solve problems that are too large appetite.
5. Strawberries
Strawberries are rich in vitamin A, vitamin B, B1 and C as well as antioxidants, good for fighting free radicals substances. So that the immune system is maintained fasting person from the virus.
6. Mango
Mangoes are loaded with vitamin A, E and C that can help cleanse the blood. For those who are fasting, drinking mango juice can reduce dehydration.
7. Orange
Oranges are loaded with vitamin A, B1, B2 and C as well as anti-cancer to the body. Citrus fruits can also stimulate the immune system, cleanse mucus and nasal cavity ditenggorokan from influenza.
8. Starfruit
Star fruit contains vitamin C and provitamin A. Star fruit useful to help facilitate digestion, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels in the body.
But keep in mind, you have a sensitive stomach problems should be careful in choosing the fruit. Choose mangoes, oranges, star fruit is ripe and sweet, do not be young and sour taste. Do not let your intentions for healthy precisely because of painful stomach problems. Thats 8 types of fruit are recommended during fasting and saur. see also careful eating fried foods during fasting.
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