Intermittent fasting is beneficial to your health

Live healthy and long

From Dr Mercola fitness archives  | January 2013

Skipping meal, intermittent fasting can lead to good health and longevity.  Thus says Dr. Michael Mosley on the said topic.  Eat normally for 5 days and fast for 2 days (eating l/4 of your normal food intake, say 600 calories for men and 500 calories for women)  Such fasting does not only have religious bearing (as form of penitence) but contributes to health and longevity:

Some benefits:

1.  Normalizing the gherlin level - the hunger hormone;

2.  Promoting HGH (human growth hormone) and thus stops aging

3   Lowers triglyceride levels

4.  Reduces inflammation and free radical damage

5.  Normalizes leptin and insulin sensitivity;  such loss of insensitivity leads to chronic diseases like diabetes heart disease and even cancer