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Intermittent fasting might be more effective for better health than eating breakfast
Every individual focuses on maintaining positive health through the management of what they consume. It is essential to outline essential plans that can help an individual to attain positive health benefits. Intermittent fasting involves skipping meals to save calories and present a better option for more effective health than eating breakfast. Intermittent fasting involves three types that individuals can choose depending on their ability to cope with changes in eating patterns. These types include whole-day fasting, alternative day fasting, and time-restricted feeding (Patterson and Dorothy, 41). All these types offer the same fat-burning benefits of intermitted fasting with the only difference in the time period the process is undertaken.
However, the efficiency of intermitted fasting in improving individual health benefits also depends on the quality of food that an individual ingests during the off periods. Eating healthy and nutritious food allows the body to obtain the much-needed nutrients without having to deal with additional body fats, which the body is trying to control through intermitted fasting, which ensures that stored energy is consumed. When coming off a fasting program, individuals rarely consume alot of food. Hatting et al. (2017) illustrates that ‘individuals can only eat 10% more coming off a fast than they would normally do considering that the body adjusts to the new system of feeding‘ (p. 430). This illustrates why intermitted fasting might be beneficial in limiting individual calorie intake and allows for weight loss.
The primary benefit of fasting is weight loss, which involves the loss of extra fats stored in the body. Insulin levels increase when eating, and high insulin prevents the burning of fats. During a fasting program, the insulin level drops significantly and allows the body to access the stored foods in the form of body fats for energy (Mattson and Michelle, 49). This results in reduced weight and improved body composition.
Works cited
Hatting, Maximilian, et al. “Adipose tissue CLK2 promotes energy expenditure during high-fat diet intermittent fasting.” Cell metabolism 25.2 (2017): 428-437.
Mattson, Mark P., Valter D. Longo, and Michelle Harvie. “Impact of intermittent fasting on health and disease processes.” Ageing research reviews 39 (2017): 46-58.
Patterson, Ruth E., and Dorothy D. Sears. “Metabolic effects of intermittent fasting.” Annual review of nutrition 37 (2017).