Intermittent fasting may help spur weight loss

- A new study suggests limiting the number of hours to eat during the day spent eating help mitigate weight gain, consumption regardless of the type of food. Whether as a complement or substitute for intermittent fasting diet that can limit the weight gain and weight loss motivation.

Researchers at the Salk Institute in San Diego recently exposed hundreds of mice on a diet high in fat foods is not ideal for shaving pounds. All mice gained weight. But mice that unrestricted access to food has increased significantly as the mice that were not able to feed for 9 to 12 hours a day.

"What we are saying is that regardless of the regime were these mice, as they have been deprived of food for 12 hours or more, they were fine. So you can not really a diet is" the lead author of the study Satchidananda Panda, a researcher at the Salk Institute, said health.

Fasting also triggers the formation of brown fat, which burns calories more efficiently than white fat - the type of fat for beer guts and heads flabby arms.

The work of the Panda and his colleagues recently published in the journal Cell Metabolism. Research is a similar study of the periodic fasting good for human health.

NIH and Johns Hopkins researchers have taken a week to reduce caloric intake by 600 calories for two days contributed to the immune system function and sharpen cognitive performance. The paper was in the journal PNAS.