Fasting and Man's Correct Diet

Fasting - the ultimate diet?

Adult humans often undertake acute fasts for cosmetic, religious or medical reasons. For example, an estimated 14% of US adults have reported using fasting as a means to control body weight and this approach has long been advocated as an intermittent treatment for gross refractory obesity. There are unique historical data sets on extreme forms of food restriction that give insight into the cons...

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Diving response after a one-week diet and overnight fasting

BACKGROUND We hypothesized that overnight fasting after a short dietary period, especially with carbohydrates, could allow performing breath-hold diving with no restraint for diaphragm excursion and blood shift and without any increase of metabolism, and in turn improve the diving response. METHODS During two separate sessions, 8 divers carried out two trials: (A) a 30-m depth dive, three hou...

The Importance of a Correct Diet in Preventing Osteoporosis

Volume 3 • Isse 3 • 1000160 An intake at which the calcium excretion is zero (intake and absorption are equal) is a minimal requirement. Though considerable differences exist between the results obtained from different researchers, a WHO expert panel has concluded that the correct value is 520 mg per day for adults eating a Western diet. Calcium is lost via urine, feces and other routes. In adu...

Thomas Vicary and the Anatomie of Mans Body

Dysfunction of prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia includes changes in GABAergic mRNAs, including decreased expression of GAD1, encoding the 67 kDa glutamate decarboxylase (GAD67) GABA synthesis enzyme. The underlying molecular mechanisms remain unclear. Alterations in DNA methylation as an epigenetic regulator of gene expression are thought to play a role but this hypothesis is difficult to tes...