What You Need To Know About Intermittent Fasting

Our Ancesters And Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting is supposed to copy that “diet plan”, if you will. By eating at a set point during the day every other day, the metabolism can be trained to process food at a heightened rate during that period.The metabolism is a wonderful tool: it can be fine-tuned and trained to match a certain lifestyle. Our predecessors didn’t have the luxury of breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They had to eat what they had while they had it.

Way back in the past, our forefathers wandered the continents in search of food.

Before they learned how to farm, they would forage for berries, nuts, roots, and just about anything else growing on a vine or branch that they could reach.

While this sounds like a very trying lifestyle, there was at least one benefit. Obesity wasn't a problem.

Maybe one in every few was a little chubby, but the biggest epidemic rocking our world today didn’t exist back then.

With the advent of 24 hour grocery stores, access to food is at an all-time high. You can even order pizza that is delivered to your door. A shift in diet must occur, and for many over the years that shift was made to mimic the past.

Intermittent fasting is based off a loose understanding of how our ancestors used to eat. Meat was rare, and had to be hunted daily to sustain the group. Sometimes, this would lead to periods without meat, or periods of low food intake in general.

By consuming heavy meals on your off day, you can resupply the body with all the essential nutrients it requires.

Then, during your fasting day, by not eating you give your digestive system time to completely finish digesting, rest itself, and then reset.

In this manor, our ancestors rarely had to worry about body image, if they worried at all. As long as you include plenty of cardio, that is to say about 3-4 hours a day spent walking, you should be able to naturally shed weight.

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