http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=222x103181Oh my.
The primitives discover the wheel.
Celebration (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-03-11 04:19 PM
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Study finds routine periodic fasting is good for your health, and your heart
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-routine-periodic-fa...
Fasting has long been associated with religious rituals, diets, and political protests. Now new evidence from cardiac researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute demonstrates that routine periodic fasting is also good for your health, and your heart.
Today, research cardiologists at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute are reporting that fasting not only lowers one's risk of coronary artery disease and diabetes, but also causes significant changes in a person's blood cholesterol levels. Both diabetes and elevated cholesterol are known risk factors for coronary heart disease.
The discovery expands upon a 2007 Intermountain Healthcare study that revealed an association between fasting and reduced risk of coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death among men and women in America. In the new research, fasting was also found to reduce other cardiac risk factors, such as triglycerides, weight, and blood sugar levels.
The findings were presented Sunday, April 3, at the annual scientific sessions of the American College of Cardiology in New Orleans.
Wilms (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-03-11 04:20 PM
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1. In this economy, many Americans will find that easy to do.
Just sayin'.
Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-03-11 04:21 PM
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3. I have done it involuntarily at times (sickness), and find I recover with more energy than ever.
I am thinking about it once a week, with plenty of water, of course.
It really does have a profound effect, although don't get carried away. I think one day a week might make a difference.
Since I'm fat, it couldn't hurt on weight loss, either.
louis-t (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-03-11 04:28 PM
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4. I see repugs using this report to proclaim...."starving is GOOD for you, just like radiation!"
BadgerKid (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-03-11 04:53 PM
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5. Old news, no?
Fasting is one way to get your body to draw more upon its stored fat.
IMO, it sounds like one way to get people to experience something other than a blood sugar rollercoaster.
Warpy (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-03-11 04:57 PM
THE DEFROCKED WARPED PRIMITIVE
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6. I did that until my mid 40s and had to stop then because it was lowering my resistance and making me vulnerable to getting sick.
One thing fasting does with collagen vascular diseases is make most of the symptoms vanish after about the fourth day and for the duration of the fast. That meant a 10 day fast would leave me feeling wonderful and the symptoms would be reduced when I started to eat again. That was a great deal for someone who spent more time without health care than with it.
Unfortunately, age caught up with me sooner rather than later and my bod rebelled against it.
reorg (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-03-11 05:20 PM
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7. doing it right now, I'm on day 17 and still got a few pounds to waste.
Feels good!
You know, there's more to this than meets the eye; for example, the environmental impact of pigging out.
I have no link, as it was in a free "underground" newspaper in Lincoln, Nebraska, when I was in college, but one time the Trotskyites who published it displayed what is apparently a hard cold statistical fact.
That the average human being expels 11 tons of shit in his lifetime.
That's a big pile of shit.
Think of the onerous burden it places on Goddess Gaia, to get rid of it.
Now, it seems to me if the primitives were as concerned for the environment as they allege themselves to be, there'd be no fat primitives, because they'd desist from pigging out so as to not burden the planet.
