Sun, Jun-14-20, 05:23
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Plan: Muscle Centric
Stats: 238/153/160
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Progress: 109%
Location: UK
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Intermittent fasting works for many — for weight loss and also for heart health
Intermittent fasting works for many — not only for weight loss but also for heart health
https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...b482_story.html
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The eating regimen called “intermittent fasting” first caught my attention last year when my friend Reid Freeman, 61, who runs a factory in Lexington, Ky., told me he’d been using it to lose weight. He hoped weight loss would help with his obstructive sleep apnea, which is associated with an increased risk of heart attack, stroke and abnormal heartbeats (known as atrial fibrillation, or AFib).
Now three years into intermittent fasting, Freeman recently told me he has shed 45 pounds thanks to it — and even more important, his sleep apnea is gone, which likely reduces his risk of a cardiac event.
I had followed up with Freeman because I’d recently learned that I was at high risk for a heart attack — not because of sleep apnea but because I have metabolic syndrome. That’s a catchall disorder that includes obesity, insulin resistance or hypertension, or a combination of them, that increases the risk of heart disease and heart attack. Based on those risks, my cardiologist, Arthur Agatston, an associate professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, had recommended intermittent fasting to me.
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Agatston, my cardiologist, told me he thought intermittent fasting would effectively address my insulin resistance, which is caused by consuming too much sugar and refined carbohydrates (including bread, white rice and pasta). Insulin resistance often progresses to prediabetes, then diabetes, high blood pressure and even atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries.
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I'm assuming this is the same Arthur Agatson who developed the South Beach Diet.
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