Intermittent fasting has no benefits, ups risk of dying from heart disease
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The bad news for the intermittent fasting crowd (and by extension, for the low-carb crowd as well) just never seem to stop. Aside from the studies that came out recently from UCSF showing loss of muscle mass, insomnia, higher blood pressure, etc in people practicing that dietary fat, now we have a study that goes further. Namely, it demonstrated almost doubling the risk of dying (not just getting) from heart disease (CVD), in addition to being no better than simple caloric restriction for weight loss, blood pressure control, etc. As I have said many times in the past, on many podcasts, while “no pain, no gain” does seem to have some basis in reality, the current mantra of “more pain, more gain” (which is what all those torturous dietary fads are) is dangerous and unsustainable, and its popularity can only be explained by the globalist push for drastically lowering food/resource consumption, living standards, and (ultimately) the number of humans on this planet.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2114833
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/19/health/intermittent-fasting-pros-cons-wellness/index.html
“…However, a yearlong study published in April 2022 that followed 139 Chinese adults ranging from overweight to significantly obese found no benefit over calorie counting for weight loss or improved cardiovascular health. Research presented this week immediately drew doubt and critiques from experts by suggesting that eating within an eight-hour window or less was significantly associated with a 91% increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, when compared with eating over a 12- to 16-hour period. An abstract of the preliminary research, which is not yet peer reviewed or published, was presented Monday in Chicago at a conference of the American Heart Association.”
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An interesting post. Fasting has taken our society by storm. It feels like everyone is fasting these days. I have to say that intermittent fasting helps in one way, it is indeed easier to consume fewer calories that way. This is though not something most people should be doing. Fasting also shows how insanely disciplined a large section of the public is regarding their health. I know obese people who are willing to starve themselves for days, which is crazy if you think about it. Imagine the headway such disciplined people would get if they embraced Peat's ideas instead of going into starvation mode.
What a blessing that what works is the opposite of the "no pain, no gain" mentality. I am indulging in the best sugary and dairy food conceivable and my health just keeps sweetening. It should be a huge white pill that Peatism is working so well for us because it should be an easy sell to the public once the fasting and keto diets have been exhausted by the public. By 2050 everyone who cares about their health will be Peating, and things will get dramatically better. Future generations will be thriving and have much bigger bodies and heads than us, and have better energy levels with slimmer waists and fewer health problems. Peatism will turn the tide and we have already started to ascend. Just think back a few years ago and tell yourself how much better you feel and are today. Just imagine the consequences when Peating becomes the norm for society at large.
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@Norwegian-Mugabe said in Intermittent fasting has no benefits, ups risk of dying from heart disease:
An interesting post. Fasting has taken our society by storm. It feels like everyone is fasting these days. I have to say that intermittent fasting helps in one way, it is indeed easier to consume fewer calories that way. This is though not something most people should be doing. Fasting also shows how insanely disciplined a large section of the public is regarding their health. I know obese people who are willing to starve themselves for days, which is crazy if you think about it. Imagine the headway such disciplined people would get if they embraced Peat's ideas instead of going into starvation mode.
What a blessing that what works is the opposite of the "no pain, no gain" mentality. I am indulging in the best sugary and dairy food conceivable and my health just keeps sweetening. It should be a huge white pill that Peatism is working so well for us because it should be an easy sell to the public once the fasting and keto diets have been exhausted by the public. By 2050 everyone who cares about their health will be Peating, and things will get dramatically better. Future generations will be thriving and have much bigger bodies and heads than us, and have better energy levels with slimmer waists and fewer health problems. Peatism will turn the tide and we have already started the ascend. Just think back to a few years ago and tell yourself how much better you feel and are today. Just imagine the consequences when Peating becomes the norm for society at large.
Good post, almost any community I am in whether IRL or online there is the pervasive belief that fasting is the best ticket to health and every person ought to be a practitioner of fasting for the purported health benefits.
I genuinely feel bad for any younger fella out there. The self-improvement industrial complex will tell them they need to fast, they need to do MORE, no time to rest, no time to eat, ignore your own needs, blah blah blah. All of these recommendations are rooted in a deranged scarcity mindset where the self-help industrial complex thinks that by telling a young fella "in the future you will have to fight to the death for a scrap of foodmeal so you better start running 3x a day instead of 2x!" it will spring them into action and it will magically "unfuck their life" or whatever other terminology the stress-hormone peddlers say.
Quite the opposite. People wonder why so many young fellas are completely bald before even the age of 25, well its no wonder. I call them "generation stress-hormone".
On the topic of fasting as a diet modality, the amount of people who I know IRL that are self proclaimed IF practitioners that I have seen eating during their fasting window is staggering, so not only is their diet modality inherently stress promoting, its causing failures in adherence which is probably psychologically harmful (assuming many of these fellas have succumbed to the self-help industrial complex where they would blame themselves for 'not being disciplined enough').
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That make sense.... i never liked fasting, i don"t advise to do it longterm
Short term fasting can have some benefits.... long term NOT, for sure NOT
That is common sense
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If you've been eating a diet including polyunsaturated fats (typical SAD diet), fasting will fuel your body with energy from stored polyunsaturated fat containing a terrific amount of oxidation byproducts.
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I have been fasting for years whenever I have to get any work done. Raising dopamine levels with food or liquid and using energy for digestion is a productivity killer.
Obviously, now that I know how fasting is not good for you (not like I did it for health reasons), I have been eating a boiled egg every couple hours. Nothing more. Only 100 calories take you out of the fasting state, btw.
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@oldchem
It's rampant.
