A PERSPECTIVE ON INTERMITTENT FASTING

You love to live close to your family. Best day to buy gold and silver for investment sake.

You are a child at heart and never let this child die.

You have a big heart and you always help someone if you can. Video gathering is possible as you miss your social circle like anything.

GEMINI

MAY 21 - JUNE 21

You are a pro in your field and none can beat you. You give tough competition to people. Many people get inspired by you. You will get special treatment from your dear ones. Take stand where you need to, don’t run in the same direction where everybody else is going.

CANCER

JUNE 22 - JULY 23

Visit a doctor if you have any doubts about your health. Don’t attack stress even if you don’t have any. Let go of things that are not in your control. You want to have your own house and you will work hard to make your dream come true.

LEO

JULY 24 - AUGUST 23

You make sure to make things work your way. Never demotivate someone even if someone is not capable of doing something. You are most wanted by your friends. You can have romantic affair in office and a serious one. You will invest money in clothes and accessories today.

VIRGO

AUG 24 - SEP 23

Your spouse is someone who can do anything for your happiness. You are opportunist and this will make you successful. There may be delays in property possession and it won’t effect you. You are happy spending whole day at home. Help your mothers at home today.

LIBRA

SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22

Scrumptious food is what you are craving for today. You always maintain cordial relationship with everyone. You workout daily to keep yourself fit. You may start a side business to earn extra money. You are not a jealous kind and you feel happy for others.

SCORPIO

OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22

You will feel amorous towards your wife. This is the best time try something new with life give yourself a new purpose. Work on your limitations, there can be no better time than this. You have more opposite sex friends than the same and you may be judged sometimes but don’t care.

People love dramatic happenings in life. Psy chologically, the major ity of us do so many things to satisfy our ego than to get the desired results. Managing body weight is one such area where people want to talk more about losing pounds than really losing them. For this, there are so many types of diets, exercises, supplements, tricks and whatnot. But the urban population has more obese people than the fit ones. Intermittent fasting is one such fad which is being talked about very frequently. Recently, a number of studies have been conducted to find its efficacy, health benefits and possible harmful effects.

Weight loss experts have started recommending intermittent fasting to cut down body fat resulting in weight loss. They also claim that this lifestyle also reduces incidents of other chronic diseases. Intermittent fasting can be undertaken in many ways. One method is alternate day fasting and eating in which for 12 hours of each day nothing is consumed except water followed by normal meals. This has to continue for many weeks. Another method is two days of fasting on non-consequent days with a normal diet on the other 5 days.

One another variation is 4-12 hours eating window including fasting of 12 hours. The person can eat anything during that window. One more option is time-restricted eating. In this method, one shouldn’t eat anything for 16 hours continuously but can have normal meals during the residual 8 hours. There is a circadian rhythm of the body when things move in a circular system of activities like sleep and awakening, hormonal up and down swings etc.

Some researchers claim that eating at odd times disrupts cir cadian rhythm and increases the chances of some chronic diseases. These diseases in clude type 2 diabetes, heart dis ease and even some cancers.

The purpose of this diet regime is to increase nighttime fasting as is done by a traditional Jain family in India where no food is taken after sunset. This is called chrono-nutrition.

Now a ques tion arises about the scientific analysis of intermittent fasting. Generally, after 12 to 36 hours of fasting, liver glycogen stores get depleted resulting in

SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 - DEC 22

Spend time talking with likeminded people as it will make you feel good. Boisterous behaviour is what everyone needs right now, do whatever you can do to cheer everyone up. You will feel financially comfortable and infant you are in position to invest prove blood sugar control (but not in type 1 diabetes) by increasing insulin sensitivity and decreasing insulin resistance. A weight loss of 3-7 per cent is possible after 8-10 weeks of intermittent fasting. There is a 14 hours to 10 hours pattern of fasting in which one can have normal food for ten hours after 14 hours of total fasting. It has been seen that by this method one can reduce waist circumference, and body and visceral fat resulting in better blood glucose metabolism. As fat loss reduces chronic in flammation, the chances of breast cancer are possibly re duced in women. Incidents of cancer breast in low-body weight women are significantly lower than in obese or compara tively plump women. Studies are underway to examine the impact on longevity and occur rence of Parkinson’s disease where logically intermittent fasting should have beneficial effects. But is fasting the pana cea for so many human health problems? Are there no nega tive effects of staying away from food under pressure? Can this be a universal phenomenon or there are individual preferences and adjustments? There is nothing which can be abso-