When Aaron Thompkins got on the plane, someone else got off.

Thompkins was on his way to California, to participate in the filming of season 10 of The Biggest Loser, a reality show dedicated to competitive weight loss.

"I was over 400 pounds at that point," Thompkins said. "We were about to take off, and this guy was so upset that he had to sit next to me."

The man got up, complained to a flight attendant, and got off the plane.

"He said nothing to me, but I remember I put my head down," Thompkins said. "I always think back on that moment, and think I should've just said something, but I didn't. I put my head down and I was so ashamed that I didn't want to bring more attention to myself and the situation."

Thompkins got sent home from The Biggest Loser during the eighth episode. He was nervous entering the airport, hoping there wouldn't be another incident. "I was scared that whole scenario was going to happen all over again, where somebody was going to be mad because they were sitting next to me," he said.

This sort of internalized weight stigma which emerges from public fat shaming is common for fat people, and is associated with some serious health outcomes, from depression to anxiety to binge eating and even increased risk of cardiovascular disease.

But a new study led by former Weight Watchers consultant and current Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania Rebecca Pearl experimented with a newer method of weight loss, where people are encouraged to accept themselves, even as they try to change their bodies.

The study divided participants into two groups.

One group received a typical weight loss management program, with the usual cooking tips and recipes, while the other received a specialized "stigma reduction intervention," along with the typical weight loss management program. The stigma intervention used gave participants the skills to cope with self-hating thoughts, experiences where they are treated badly due to their weight, and increase feelings of self and body acceptance.

In the screening process, applicants had to confirm to a psychologist that their weight negatively affected how they felt about themselves. They were only eligible for the study if they reported a history of being bullied or discriminated against due to their weight.

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For 12 weeks, participants attended regular group meetings. At the end of the six month study, participants filled out surveys with self-evaluating questions like "I am less attractive than most other people because of my weight" and "I hate myself for being overweight."

The second group was less likely to hate themselves due to their weight compared to participants who only received weight loss treatment. While it may sees obvious that a comprehensive approach to weight loss would involve tackling people's mental health as well as their physical health, this is the first study with proof that advocating for a weight loss management routine involving mental health treatment is beneficial .

The study was conducted on 72 participants, 84% of them female, and 66% of them black. (That the study was conducted on a majority of black women was unintentional. Pearl recruited her participants in West Philadelphia, where there is a sizable black population.)

All participants had a body mass index of 35 or higher. The BMI cutoff for obesity is 30.

"Acceptance and change might seem to be on opposite poles, but actually what we find is that by increasing acceptance, we can also open up people for change and vice versa," Pearl told Insider.

In designing the study, Pearl drew on the work of Dialectical Behavior Therapy developer Marsha Linehan, with phrases like "I can accept and love myself as I am right now, while also working to change my health behaviors and lose weight to improve my health."

Some participants told Pearl they almost felt guilty because, as feminists, they knew that they should love themselves for how they were, but wanted to lose weight for health reasons. Many participants told Pearl they wanted to lose weight to lower their blood pressure and run around with their grandkids, not to look a certain way.

"I've certainly talked to researchers and clinicians who worry that if we promote too much body acceptance, or focus too much on reducing stigma, that people will get the message that it's accepted, or that people will feel less motivated to want to change their health behaviors or lose weight," Pearl told Insider.

Though Pearl's study used traditional weight loss methods, it also used aspects of Health At Every Size philosophy, which espouses intuitive eating, giving up diets and accepting bodies as they are.

The study was limited in its small size and short duration, especially given that research shows many diets don't work in the long term. Pearl is currently recruiting for a 16-month version of the study with more participants, hoping to repeat the same results.

The study was funded by Weight Watchers, and three of the study authors were former Weight Watchers consultants, but Pearl says Weight Watchers was not involved in the study design at all.

Charlotte Markey, a Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University who wasn't involved in the study, said she isn't too concerned about the Weight Watchers connection. Markey told Insider she feels the study's weight loss method exists in a happy medium between the anti-diet Health At Every Size movement and traditional diet culture which Health At Every Size was created to combat.

"In this area of research too many people have taken sides," said Markey. "You're either pro self-acceptance, just love yourself as you are, it doesn't matter if you have type two diabetes, or you're pro-weight loss, because we have this accumulation of research suggesting that it would benefit people's health in some cases."

But Markey pointed out that you'd have to ignore a lot of research to say that weight and health aren't at all linked, and that some people would benefit from weight loss. If you think you have to beat yourself up in order to lose weight, however, Pearl's study suggests that isn't the best approach.

"Consider having a little self-compassion while working on improving health behaviors," said Pearl.

During Thompkins' time on The Biggest Loser, the contestants were taken to an upscale community pool to swim.

"That was probably the most overweight people that pool has ever seen in their entire lives come out all at once," he said. "I told them 'I do not take my shirt off for anybody, I'm not going to do this.'"

But seeing everyone else strip down to their bathing suits, Thompkins did as well. Watching all those people out there that day, proudly splashing around in bathing suits on camera, Thompkins stopped being embarrassed for a moment.

He chalked that growth up to the therapy the show offered, even if wasn't shown onscreen very often.

"When it comes to weight, there's a mental part of it that you've got to try to figure out and work through," he said. "It's about figuring out why you're doing the things you're doing."

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AMI Mediterranean Diet is the Easiest to Follow, a New Study SaysThere are tons of diets to choose from these daysketo, paleo, intermittent fasting, sirt food, vegan, and the list goes on and on. The problem with most is that they either dont work, or theyre hard to maintain in the long run unless you have some sort of professional help.

Luckily, science has determined not only which diet seems to work the best for weight loss, but also which are the easiest to continue for lifelong results.

A study conducted at the University of Otago and published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that intermittent fasting seemed to result in the most pounds shed and was fairly easy to follow. The Mediterranean diet, which also saw significant health benefits, appears to be the easiest diet to maintain.

For the study, 250 overweight adults were asked to pick between the Mediterranean diet, paleo, or intermittent fasting as a weight loss strategy54 percent picked IF, 27 percent Mediterranean, and 18 percent Paleo. For those who picked IF, they employed the 5:2 strategy, wherein you eat a only about 500 calories on two days of the week and your normal amount the other five.

All attended a 30-minute class on their self-selected diet and were then asked to try to stick to the diet for a year without any professional help.

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The purpose of that was to see how effective the diets were in a real world situationi.e. one where people dont have access to a scientist, dietitian, or nutritionist.

Participants who picked IF lost an average of 9 pounds; Mediterranean dieters lost an average of six; and paleo an average of 4. (IF and Mediterranean diets also resulted in significant improvements in blood pressure, the researchers said)

While those numbers may seem low, it could be influenced by the fact that close to half the participants dropped their selected diet strategy before the 12-month study concluded.

The Mediterranean diet saw the most retention, with 57 percent of those who chose it still following the eating strategy at the end of the study. Intermittent fasting was close behind with a 54 percent retention rate, and paleo only saw 35 percent of participants stick with it.

So does this mean you should necessarily try out IF or Mediterranean diets? Not necessarily. Dr. Melyssa Roy, a research fellow at the University of Otagos Department of Medicine and co-lead author of the study, said it only shows that theres no right diet, and that people should follow the one that works for themone that suits their lifestyle and gets them results.

"Like the Mediterranean diet, intermittent fasting and paleo diets can also be valid healthy eating approachesthe best diet is the one that includes healthy foods and suits the individual, Roy said in a release.

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It seems like everyone shares a common struggle and common goal: How do we get healthier, look better and feel better? We all agonize over the search for the easiest diet and the fastest weight-loss tricks. And there is no shortage of supplements, weight-loss fads and diets. There is so much noise it is hard to really understand what works and what does not.

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TW: this piece discusses anti-fatness, fat camps, diet & exercise, and familial/social child abuse. please proceed with caution.

I have been fat for as far back as my memory will allow me to reach. Before I even knewor cared, for that matterabout the largeness of my body in comparison to others around me, others made clear to me that it was an issue. Not quite an issue for me, but an issue for how they perceived me. Left and right, day-in and day-out, people projected their hate for fatness onto my body.

I was picked on and bullied constantly in elementary school for my weight. I was a hypersensitive little fat boy who everyone saw as a target. Other than a few, even my friends treated me horribly for my size. I would pick on myself for not being able to do the pull-ups in PE before my PE teacher, or my peers, could. I would pretend that I was just apathetic about the mile run, and would walk it instead so that no one could make fun of the fat boy who tried hard to keep up with his thin peers and failed. Eventually, after I internalized all of this, it led to me being the angry fat Black boy who posed a threat to others. I started fighting a lot, being combative with my teachers, threatening my peers, and ultimately spending more time in suspension than I did in class. This would continue through middle school. There is a conversation there about anti-fat bullying as part of the school-to-prison pipeline, but that is a different conversation for a different piece.

What this all led back to, however, was peoples hate for my body. But I was a very active child, so I could not fathom the reasons for why anyone would loathe my body for something that I seemingly could not change.

When I was 4, my mom met my now-stepfather who also happened to be a coach of various sports. At a very early age, I played just about every sport imaginable. Football, baseball, basketball, soccer, golf. If you name it, I have likely played iteven if it was not coached by him. And as anyone in the US public school system knows, in elementary school, they kept us very active; from field days, to PE tests, to a daily required recess. But because of my various illnesses, and the harm I was experiencing by my doctors, my mom worried. As any parent would, considering how scarce and new fat politics isespecially at that time. But the result of this panic was essentially an at-home fat camp.

I was periodically put on crash diets and inadvertently judged, essentially, for eating. My mom used to put me in sweatsuits and wrap me in black trash bags, and have me run for miles. I was no older than 8. And I had asthma. But for miles, I ran. Sometimes shed join me sans the trash bags and sweatsuits. At times, I would make it fun and pretend I was Missy Elliott from that infamous video, but most times I just felt defeated. As I have already written before, diets and diet culture are only successful at stealing out of the pockets of fat people and punishing us for our bodies. And running around my neighborhood in that uniform, for everyone to make a spectacle of my body, felt like I was being put on display at a zoo. And what once was my one escape from overwhelming fat hate became one of the sites of my most traumatic anti-fat experiences.

In 1999, a 14-year-old girl by the name of Gina Score died because of forced exercise and a lack of care around fat childrens bodies. Gina, who had been part of a camp run and operated by military veterans, had been tasked with a 2.7-mile run. She fell on the ground, gasping for air. After four hours of her instructors laughing, drinking soda, and accusing Gina of faking, a doctor came and called for an ambulance immediately. Ginas organs had failed. She had died.

In an extreme case like this, many would call what happened to Gina abuse. And it is. But it is also murder. The abuse did not start and end with Ginas collapse or with the coaches negligence, though; the abuse began with the idea that Gina ever needed to be punished for her weight in the first place.

One of the most infamous fat camps in the country, Camp Shanewhich has been in operation since 1968, has been featured on channels like TLC, OWN, MTV, and more. According to their own website, they have hosted well over 20,000 children at their campsites. Its marketed as just another summer camp with the friendly intent to help children make friends and fit in, but the reality is that these camps do not exist for any other reason but to punish fat children. No matter how fun the camps are supposed to be, they are all designed to teach fat children that their fatness is something to be ashamed of. And much like diet programs, fat camps are nothing more than a capitalist money-grab. Most of the results, just like with dieting, are only temporary.

Children are sent to these boot camp-like weight loss programs to be shamed for their weight; manipulated into believing that the abuse theyre forced to endure is about being accepted instead of being punished for owning a body that looks different from what the rest of the world sees as normal. And I continue to use the word punish throughout this essay because thats what it is. Fat kids are being penalized for their bodies; whipped into shape; disciplined for something the rest of the world views as an offense and a breach of an imagined moral code.

Everyday life for fat kids is like a fat camp. Even for those of us who have never been to one. Mistreated for having bodies that take up more room than humans are allotted. Harmed for showing up in a world hellbent on making thinness a universal norm. And no one other than fat people will name this for what it is: a very targeted form of child abuse. There is no other way to put it. Forcing exercise and diets on your children is an attempt to punish them for their (perceived) fatness and that is abuse.

To be clear: I do not blame my mom. She was doing what she thought was best. And I imagine that most other parents believe they are, too. I blame the medical-industrial complex that thrives off of harming fat people. I blame the diet industrial complex that seeks to steal from fat people. I blame the public school system for seeking to punish literal children for their bodies. And most yet, I blame our collective and societal commitment to making exercise and fitness about weight loss and punishment rather than feeling good in your body and in motion.

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Paleo. Keto. Whole 30 when January rolls around on the calendar, diet plans become one of the most searched topics online. People are looking for a safe, fast and healthy way to lose pounds and inches while gaining a new lifestyle.

The thing is, not all diet plans work for everyone. Switching up your diet can be challenging, especially if youve been in the same unhealthy rut for years.

The key is to find that unique solution for you, the one that fits in with your lifestyle, schedule and food requirements. That way youll be more likely to stick to the plan.

Losing weight and eating healthy does not happen overnight, said Pat Jurek, RD MBA, manager, Center for Weight Management, Henry Ford Macomb Hospitals, in an email. Instead, developing a healthier relationship with food is often a long, circuitous journey. Expect setbacks along the way. Those mishaps and mistakes will help you build the skills and resilience you need to succeed over the long haul.

Katie Roberts, lead dietician at Michigan Bariatric Institute at St. Joseph Mercy Health System, agreed that while lots of people look for fast results, what you need to consider is long-term goals and a more permanent lifestyle change.

If you work long hours, for example, she said, a plan that is heavy on meal prep may not be the best option for you.

Instead, Roberts said to take a more realistic approach that includes:

Produce, especially organic options

Quality proteins, including plant-based choices

Portion control

Exercise

Small goals

Think about your health and wellness in the long term, said Roberts. Small goals will add up over time. You may not always see the numbers on the scale move, but things are changing internally youll have more energy and feel better overall.

WW, formerly Weight Watchers, launched myWW, which takes a customized approach to weight loss, said registered dietician Jaclyn London, head of nutrition and wellness at WW. You start by taking a personalized science and behavior-based assessment then based on your responses in areas like food preferences, activity level and lifestyle, are matched with one of three flexible plans.

Its about meeting people within the framework of their lifestyle, she said.

Ultimately, weight loss is about making small, every day changes, said London. WW provides flexibility, liveability and an online community to offer encouragement, tips, recipes and more.

Jenny Craig recently rolled out the DNA Decoder Plan, creating an even more customized experience for members by personalizing their weight loss plans based on their DNA. This plan analyzes 15 different genetic markers that can provide members with insight into five key areas: Sleep quality, eating behaviors, metabolism and how their body processes food and responds to exercise.

Jenny Craig also launched two new customized offerings: Jenny30 and Simple60. Jenny30 gives members the tools to lose up to 16 pounds in 30 days powered by the Rapid Results program, which utilizes Nobel Prize-winning research on the bodys circadian rhythm to help optimize metabolism and accelerate weight loss, said Briana Rodriguez, registered dietitian nutritionist and certified personal trainer for Jenny Craig.

She said everyone has a different motivation to improve their health, which is why personalized support is so important. What motivates one person might not always work for someone else.

Members receive one-on-one support in-center or over the phone from dedicated consultants who create a personalized plan for each member because we know everyone is different and what might work for one person might not be right for another, said Rodriguez.

Keto, according to Jurek, is heavy in calories from fat and protein and very restrictive with carbohydrates with an emphasis on low-starch vegetables as the primary carbohydrate source.

Intermittent fasting places an individual into windows of time, a window for eating and a window for not eating. The non-eating windows may be 10-16 hours. Intermittent fasting goes hand in hand with caloric restriction as long as the individual is not loading up on too many high calorie density foods during their shortened eating window, she said.

Whole 30 eliminates all sugars and starches, including legumes, alcohol, grains and dairy. Some fruits are allowed and in moderation.

The Paleo diet is based on eating like our Paleolithic ancestors, focusing on lean animal proteins, healthy fats, vegetables, fruits and avoiding legumes, grains, potatoes, sugars and processed foods.

Jurek said a good strategy is to work with a dietician if you plan to follow a diet that eliminates certain foods or entire food groups. Thats because while these approaches may help you lose weight as long as they lower your overall calorie intake, they can create nutrient deficiencies and other issues for people with chronic diseases. She said diets with excessive protein, for example, can be taxing on the kidneys and that might cause an issue for some people.

Health professionals, said Roberts, can tailor a plan just for you, using the food groups to your benefit. They can suggest small changes like going from 32 oz. of water a day to 48 oz. or adding 30 minutes of walking a week to your schedule. The key is to not make too many drastic changes all at one time.

Be careful not to fall prey to vague goals, like I want to lose 20 pounds. Instead, identify exactly what it is you want to achieve. Do you want to be healthier to address medical issues like high blood pressure or constant knee pain? Do you want to lose weight so you can train harder for that marathon in Hawaii youve wanted to do for years? Do you want to drop three dress sizes for your high school reunion in July? Do you want to lose 40 pounds so you have more energy to run around with your kids on the playground? Be specific and remind yourself frequently of your goals.

While there's no such thing as a perfect diet, studies suggest that emphasizing healthful foods (such as vegetables, fruits and whole grains) and limiting potentially harmful foods (like those loaded with sugar, salt, fat and chemicals) can have positive health effects, said Jurek.

She said this has been the prevailing message for years, but some people believe that dieting advice continues to change.

The answer has been to, and continues to be, eat more plant based foods/less meat, more whole foods/less processed foods, move more/sit less, said Jurek.

Many diets take this message to heart. The popular Mediterranean diet, she said, emphasizes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, heart-healthy olive oil, nuts, seeds and lean protein (including lots of fish and beans).

Studies show that following a Mediterranean-style diet helps lower blood pressure and protects against chronic diseases ranging from cancer to stroke. One reason it boasts so many health benefits is because it focuses on whole, unprocessed foods that are nutrient-rich and mostly free of sugar, sodium and harmful fats, she said.

The DASH (Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension) diet is similar to the Mediterranean diet in that it focuses on eating fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy and minimizing red meat and sweets. Designed for people with high blood pressure, the DASH diet not only helps keep blood sugar and blood pressure levels steady, but it also helps people lose weight.

The MIND diet, said Jurek, is a combination of the Mediterranean and DASH diets that emphasizes eating foods that nourish the brain, including nuts, berries and fatty fish.

Long-term change requires a commitment to changing your eating habits for good. If youre serious about making 2020 the year you finally drop those extra pounds youve been talking about for years, Pat Jurek, RD MBA, manager, Center for Weight Management, Henry Ford Macomb Hospitals, shared these four strategies that can help you meet your individual goals:

Plan ahead. Change isn't easy. It can be downright discouraging at times. You'll fare well if you plan ahead and prepare your home and work environment to support healthier eating habits. Keep fresh fruits and vegetables on hand and limit your access to unhealthy processed foods and snacks.

Get help. Consider meeting with a dietitian to customize your plan and provide tips, strategies, ideas and accountability for your new approach to eating. A professional can help you troubleshoot as challenges arise and also hold you accountable so you're better equipped to meet your goals.

Build a support network. Surround yourself with like-minded friends and family members. Knowing others are working with you can help you manage during difficult times.

Keep it positive. Instead of fixating on when or how you've failed to eat as planned, focus on how you're supporting yourself to make better eating decisions.

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When Ryan Grover sat down with Coach Philip Tabor at CrossFit Coordinate in Cary, North Carolina in April 2019, he had no idea he was about to embark on a journey that would help him lose nearly 100 lb. in just nine months.

The 29-year-old weighed 348 lb. at the time. Today, hes down to 250 lb.

The first thing Tabor got Grover to do was to come up a selfish reason he wanted to lose weight. After some soul searching, Grover had a breakthrough.

I never had a dad I could throw a ball with, or just go outside and play and be active with. And I realized that when its my turn to have kids, I dont want to be this way. Through conversation with (Tabor), we talked about what my dad was like, and it helped me realize what I wanted, Grover said.

Thus, what he really wantedhis real reason whywas to lose weight and become healthier and fitter so he could be a more capable father than his father was to him.

Identifying this purpose is a big part of what helped him stick to his commitment to exercise and clean eating in the months that followed, he explained.

The reason Tabor asks his clients to find their selfish reason is simple: Nobody loses weight for others. They might say it, but at the core we only make changes when they are selfish in nature, Tabor said.

Some people say (they want to be able to have) better sex. Others say (to live a) long life. One client did it because his dad just died and he was headed there next. But whatever the reason, its their reason and I keep that in front of them. It drives them, he added.

When people are able to find their deeper reason for wanting to lose weight and get healthy, theyre then able to change their identity and their perception of themselves, Tabor explained.

In Grovers case, it allowed him to shed the idea that he was an obese man, and start doing the things healthy, strong, fit people do, Tabor said.

Thats why the weight came off so fast, he added.

Clearly the approach works, as Grover is one of four clients at CrossFit Coordinate who have lost 100 lb. in the last year, while five others lost at least 60 lb.

A second key to Grovers success is having a coach to keep him on track, Grover explained.

The accountability part was the big piece for me, so I could do simple things like send (Tabor) pictures of my food. He would give me advice like, Next time. shrink the portion of potatoes. Having that constant nudge from someone has been really helpful to keep me on track, Grover said, adding that the nutrition coaching he received from Tabors wife Holly Tabor, also played an integral role.

Today, Grover no longer eats at fast food joints, and he doesnt overeat regularly like he used to. Instead, he mostly eats lean protein, a lot of vegetables and some starch.

And because Grover feels like he has made habit changesas opposed to embarking on a strict, short-term diethe said he knows these changes are here to stay.

It took a while to get used to the new routine, but now I dont have a lot of cravings. I do want a pizza every now and again, but I dont miss fast food. It actually hurts when I eat it because my body is working on a much cleaner diet, he said.

He added: Its definitely a lifestyle change. I dont want to go back.

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The New England Journal of Medicine is widely regarded as perhaps the most prestigious medical journal in the world. It has an acceptance rate of five per cent, meaning that only one in 20 articles submitted is judged by experts to be worthy of publication. That doesnt mean the rejected papers are not based on sound research; most eventually get published in lesser journals. But the New England Journal looks for the cream of the crop. Thats why I pay particular attention to papers published in this journal, such as a recent article on the Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease. Even more so when the article is the work of Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist Dr. Mark Mattson, renowned globally for his research in the area of intermittent fasting.

Intermittent fasting does not mean cutting out a Snickers bar between meals. It refers to a systematic eating pattern that places emphasis not on what food should be eaten, but rather on when it should be consumed. Intermittent fasts fall into three general categories. In alternate day fasting, days of very low-calorie intake are alternated with days of regular eating. The 5:2 variety dictates eating normally on five days of the week but restricting calories to under 700 on two non-sequential days. In daily time-restricted feeding, all food is consumed in a six-to-eight-hour window, essentially resulting in a 16- to 18-hour fast. Most people who engage in this version finish supper by about 7 p.m. and do not eat again until lunch the next day.

Of course, the question is why anyone would want to engage in any of these torturous regimes. Simply put, it is because there is accumulating evidence that calorie restriction provides benefits beyond the obvious weight loss. It has long been known that reduced food intake in animals results in an increased life span. The assumption has been that the benefits of reduced calorie intake are due to a reduction in the generation of free radicals as a consequence of metabolic processes. However, it appears that there is another factor involved. Typically, in experiments in which rodents are put on a low-calorie diet, they are given their daily allotment of food in one dose that they generally consume within a few hours. This means that essentially, they are on a 20-hour fast. This results in metabolic switching, a term with which we have to become familiar to understand the benefits that are attributed to intermittent fasting.

The main source of energy for cells is glucose. During respiration, glucose serves as fuel, providing energy as it reacts with oxygen to yield carbon dioxide and water. It is this process that is also accompanied by the production of those troublesome free radicals. The main source of glucose are carbohydrates in the diet and when these are severely restricted, as in fasting, the body switches to fats as an alternate fuel. But fats are not used directly, they are converted in the liver to ketone bodies that then are metabolized yielding energy. This is commonly referred to as a state of ketosis.

It turns out that these ketones are not just fuel for cells, but are also signalling molecules that regulate the expression and activity of various proteins and other biochemicals that influence health and aging. It seems that metabolic switching, which is a result of periods of fasting, is perceived by the body as a signal to go into survival mode since no food is coming in. Cells respond by improving control of blood pressure and blood sugar, producing more antioxidants and curbing inflammation.

Most of the fasting studies that have produced promising results have involved animals, but some human trials are starting to emerge. Improvements in insulin sensitivity, verbal memory, resting heart rate, and cholesterol levels have been noted in short-term clinical trials. In rodents, experiments have shown reduced occurrence of spontaneous tumours with daily calorie restriction or alternate-day fasting. Suppression of the growth of induced tumours has also been observed. Furthermore, the animals show increased sensitivity to radiation and chemotherapy. Stimulated by these observations, a number of human trials examining the effect of intermittent fasting on breast, ovarian, prostate, endometrial, colorectal and brain tumours are underway. Pilot studies are also examining possible benefits of intermittent fasting in multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, surgical outcomes and athletic performance.

Obviously, we have to temper this discussion with the all-too-often-stated disclaimer that more research is needed. But it is forthcoming. Dr. Valter Longo at the University of Southern California has some interesting results with his Fasting Mimicking Diet. For five days, people consume only special prepackaged foods that provide 1,000 calories the first day and 725 the other days and are said to have a unique combination of nutrients that trick the body into thinking it is fasting. Repeating the cycle monthly for three months has resulted in weight loss as well as a drop in blood sugar and cholesterol. But going hungry for five days is challenging and the meals are expensive.

It is always meaningful to ask experts what change they have made in their life as a result of their research. Mattson says he eats within a six-hour window every day. And thats from the horses mouth.

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Joe Schwarcz is director of McGill Universitys Office for Science & Society (mcgill.ca/oss). He hosts The Dr. Joe Show on CJAD Radio 800 AM every Sunday from 3 to 4 p.m.

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