Thanks, Phil. It's nice to see more mass media attention on the research in favor of short-term fasting. I've twittered this (Fast5), put in on the Fast-5 Facebook group and commented on the original Forbes article so maybe a few more people will see it.
Thanks!
Bert
Bert Herring
Fast-5 Corporation
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fast5@yahoogroups. com, Phil Voelker <mail4pvoelker@ ...> wrote:
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> Check out this article on MSN today:
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http://health. msn.com/health- topics/articlepa ge.aspx?cp- documentid= 100251251& gt1=31044>
> The exerpt I was most interested in:
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> Dietitians have long recommended regular mealtimes for their patients. Satchidananda Panda, an assistant professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, now has laboratory data backing up this idea. His study, published in a November issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that mice on a regular feeding schedule have much more efficient metabolisms than critters who are allowed to eat whenever they want.
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> Panda let one group of mice eat freely throughout the 24-hour day while another group was fed on a rigid schedule. The second group fasted for 16 hours a day, but both groups of mice ate the same amount of calories for two weeks. Then he did gene scans on the mice to see what was going on in their livers.
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> In the mice on the uncontrolled feeding schedules, food metabolism genes in the liver were chaotic because the mice were frequently eating and nibbling. Overall, nearly 3,000 liver genes involving in burning fat and sugar were expressed in the freely-eating mice throughout the day.
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> While it might seem advantageous to have thousands of calorie-burning genes running throughout the day, this makes metabolism less efficient and can create a byproduct that attacks and breaks down DNA, Panda says.
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> By contrast, the mice on a controlled feeding schedule had a much more consistent pattern of liver gene expression. When feeding, the mice burned sugar, but fat-burning didn't occur until several hours after they had begun fasting.
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> Anyway, just sharing. Happy Monday everyone!
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> Phil
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