How to Stay Hydrated While Fasting
When it comes to fasting, a lot of emphasis is placed on what we eat (or don’t eat), which makes it easy to forget about another crucial element: staying hydrated.
Exercise and Fasting
Though people fast for many different reasons, fasting and exercise are often undertaken together.
Can Fasting Prevent Strokes and Aid Stroke Recovery?
Fasting is often touted as an effective method for losing weight, but new research finds it may also help save lives by reducing risk of strokes, and helping tissues recover after a stroke.
Preparing for a Fast
After reading all about the excellent benefits that fasting provides, you’re finally ready to try it out yourself. You could gobble down all the junk food you anticipate you won’t be eating for your fasting window, but it’s better to prepare your body for optimum success even before you begin fasting. The magic of fasting happens when your body…
Breaking your Fast
If you’ve embarked upon one of the many varieties of fasts — where you take in little or no food for a stretch of time — at some point you’ll eventually need to break your fast and begin eating again.
Should You Avoid Fasting?
While fasting is getting great press for its numerous health benefits, it’s not for everyone.
Fast Your Way to Autophagy
Fasting — where you restrict taking in calories for an extended period of time—appears to bring with it some pretty remarkable health benefits. These include weight loss, changes to risk factors for diabetes and heart disease, and longer life. Researchers have been trying to get to the bottom of why fasting is linked to longevity…
Eating Green
If you’re not up to wearing green this St. Patrick’s Day, try eating green instead.
Should You Supplement While Fasting?
It stands to reason that if you’re taking in fewer calories by fasting, you are also probably taking in fewer vitamins and nutrients.
Is Intermittent Fasting the Key to Longevity?
Intermittent fasting is not only good for the waistline, but studies find it may play a role in staving off the degenerative effects of aging.
