Monday, August 06, 2012

Eat, fast and live longer...

Playlist
Various – Last 15 Months’ Rock & Pop on Shuffleplay
Gwilym Simcock – Good Days at Schloss Elmau
The Orb featuring David Gilmour – Metallic Spheres
Radiohead – The King of Limbs
CBQ - Juxtaposition
Norman Lamont – Anywhere But Here
Various – Where the Action Is

Soaked this morning as I decided to take a new (longer) one mile route down the hill...

A walk to FOPP at lunchtime and back added another mile and a half to the total...

Nothing purchased...

In the evening, alighted at the zoo and made the return (longer) one mile journey up the rather steep hill to Crispycat Towers...

Tonight’s “Horizon” was another very interesting programme on health by Dr Michael Mosley...



...“Eat, Fast and Live Longer” in which he looked into the benefits of fasting, discovering that a four day fast reduced his IGF (Growth Factor re ageing) by 50%...

Fasting for four days at a time proved too much for him though...

He then found that fasting on alternate days (but fasting this time meant one meal of 500 calories) had the same kind of effect...

This reduced drastically his chances of developing ageing diseases like cancer...

In the end he plumped for the 5-2 plan – fasting for two days out of every seven...

After five weeks he’d lost a stone, his body fat was down by around a third and all his other crucial numbers were considerably reduced...

Food for thought...

Late on, just as I headed to bed, a neon cat was to be found in the back room...



Highlight of the Day : More from Mosely...

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