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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This sounds like an excellent way to rid your body of muscle (which it will consumer first since it's metabolically "expensive" to maintain) while at the same time lowering your metabolism to near starvation levels. That ensures you'll either have to do this forever or you'll yo-yo up even higher when you stop. Not a bright idea.[/quote]

Okay, sounds like another person who's helpfully making sweeping judgments without bothering to actually review the literature. Sigh.[/quote]

I agree, but as I have mentioned in other threads, this person should not be too overly criticized as the popular press has supplied this misinformation unendingly for decades ... Not exactly fair to blame people for holding this belief.

http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/juddd/780230-benefits-alternate-day-fasting-cron.html

Contains a lot of research study citations.  Krista Varady's book summarizes her own extensive research on the approach as a weight loss method but I prefer the research that focuses more on the broader health impacts.   Google work done by mark mattson in particular ... He is the chief neuro researcher at NIH and is probably the most published, cited, and respected guy out there.  Valter Longo and Luigi Fontana are also extremely good and reputable.

Most people don't have time or reason to do this amount of research.  I only list these people and links to provide some assurance that there really is good science behind IF ... It is not just one more flakey fad.[/quote]

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