Feast And Famine Is A Pretty Good Diet For Longevity
Friday, February 27, 2015 - 10:10
in Health & Medicine
Nature is all about booms and busts - it is common for species to grow too large to be sustainable. Humans were once that way too, but science has now made it possible for even the poorest people to be fat. We no longer have a feast or famine existence.And the worst thing you can do to lose weight is go on a 'crash' diet, according to modern nutritional thinking - your body quickly goes into starvation mode. But that is in the short term, clearly if you were to go on a starvation diet for any extended period, you lose a lot of weight, it happens every season on "Survivor". Mitochondria, the little energy factories in our cells, are nimble about optimizing what they have and do not have. read more