Intermittent fasting: The key to that perfect summer body?

Did you hear about this new fasting diet? It’s been all over social media! This video explains what intermittent fasting is, the science behind it and metabolic processes. It also presents research articles that explain the diet further.

This video was made by McMaster University students Farah Al Faraj, Sarah Qureishi, Ingrid Kao and Neel Patel in collaboration with the McMaster Demystifying Medicine Program.

This video is provided for general and educational information only. Please consult your health care provider for Information about your health.

Copyright McMaster University 2018

References:

Gabel, K., Hoddy, K., Haggerty, N., Song, J., Kroeger, C., & Trepanowski, J. et al. (2018). Effects of 8-hour time-restricted feeding on body weight and metabolic disease risk factors in obese adults: A pilot study. Nutrition And Healthy Aging, 4(4), 345-353. doi: 10.3233/nha-170036

Trepanowski, J., Kroeger, C., Barnosky, A., Klempel, M., Bhutani, S., & Hoddy, K. et al. (2017). Effect of Alternate-Day Fasting on Weight Loss, Weight Maintenance, and Cardioprotection Among Metabolically Healthy Obese Adults. JAMA Internal Medicine, 177(7), 930. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.0936

[saileshkoirala]

Please don't call it a diet. Its a pattern of eating.

[MrRuger]

Calling it a diet is misleading, Its just scheduling you're calorie intake at different times. You're not reducing calories like would be suggested by the term "diet"

[herbgee]

What grade you get on this school project?

[MikeCola]

Top Ten health benefits of intermittent fasting
1- Increases insulin sensitivity
2- Promotes weight loss without counting calories
3- Lowest triglycerides
4- Lowers blood pressure
5- Increases HGH
6- Reduces inflammation
7- Up regulates autophagy
8- Prevents type II diabetes
9- Reduces cancer risk
10- Increases longevity

[MikeCola]

Intermittent Fasting Plan (do this every other day)
- Skip breakfast (have water, black coffee or tea)
- Break the fast @ 12:00pm (big salad with some protein)
- Finish dinner by 8:00pm (fish with 2 different color vegetables)
- No snacks
- No food until noon the next day

[imperialbrick]

This is the best DIET ever, I have dropped 25 lbs in two months I do 18:6 and 20:4 twice a week

[AdhamAkbarAahil]

I lost 30 pounds doing this. It really works

[kiliya]

This is a great explanation of the scientific side of Intermittent Fasting. I lost over 30 lbs using IF as a tool, to be fair, for those of us who have issues with overeating the biggest benefit can be the fact that there is simply less time in the day to over consume calories. I made a video on my channel with my weight loss results if anyone wants to check it out.

[MoncurDA]

I think some of the commentators are being overly critical or unneccessarily critical. In it's simplicity this is one of the easiest and brief explanations of intermittent fasting.

[kevgh]

Please learn how to say 'intermittent'.

[christyjackson]

IF is not a diet . It is an eating pattern.

[triggerhappy]

I've been trying this. im not sure if i lost weight, but I feel alot better! less bloated ! im also eating smaller portions of food and i think my stomach is shrinking because i can't eat as much as i used to or ill get sick. so maybe its working! yay!

[Chibstah]

Just realized I’ve been doing a 20:4 fast

[cassiec]

1 month doing this and loss 10kg
Before was 110kg then 99kg!!

[ashleybrittneyromeroratlif]

She needs more enthusiasm in her damn voice she Sounds so bored so I got bored with the video ...so I'm headed back to the IF warrior where there's tons of great information details on IF

[wishingWL]

I'm not an expert but intermittent fasting is definitely not a diet.

[triggerhappy]

so basically skip breakfast. okay got it !

[MarkRiker]

The term diet is used correctly here. The term means your habit of eating. Most people use it as a shorter "weight loss diet" but that's not the definition or the origin of the word. There are Weight Loss Diets, Weight Gain Diets, Strength Gaining Diets and all are diets non the less. Healthy Diet does not even imply Weight Loss Diet either and TV commercials abuse that on purpose.

[Pannakoppala]

Sweety this is not a diet. Its a life style change. I have been doing this for 4  months and lost 17lbs and I eat what I want in the eating window(does it sound like a diet?)

[jesusolivares]

All I do since I know there are others who don’t like taking 2-however many meals per day, is I eat for one hour. 4 P.M every day. I drink a ton of water and I every now and then chew minty gum. I also either watch videos, go out, or game in order to distract my mind but not the entire time.