Eating dinner in the mid-afternoon then fasting lowers blood pressure and boosts metabolism

( Natural News ) It’s not just what you eat, but when you eat that matters. This is what researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) concluded when they found that fasting can cause significant improvements in a person’s blood sugar control, blood pressure and oxidative stress levels. Intermittent fasting is hot, but it is far from being a new topic. For one, many celebrities attribute their weight loss to it. “We know intermittent fasting improves metabolism and health,” said Courtney Peterson, assistant professor at UAB’s Department of Nutrition Sciences and one of the researchers in the study. “However, we didn’t know whether these effects are simply because people ate less and lost weight.” Peterson and her team decided to test the effects of early time-restricted feeding (eTRF). In this method, a person is allowed to eat only within a set period (usually 10 hours or shorter) every day. It is different from conventional intermittent fasting in that meals are taken earlier to account for your circadian rhythm. For example, in eTRF, a person will dinner during the mid-afternoon, and spend the rest of the day fasting. For the study, the researchers recruited eight men diagnosed as prediabetic. They were told to follow eTRF for five weeks and to eat at normal American meal times for another five weeks. In the eTRF schedule, the subjects ate within a six-hour period (between 6:30 to 8:30 and no later than three in the afternoon) and fasted for the remaining 18 hours. In the American schedule, the men were allowed to eat their meals over a 12-hour period. Support our mission and protect your health: Organic Seeds of Life combines Red Raspberry Seed Power, Black Cumin Seed Power and Red Grape Seed Powder into the most potent nutrient-rich supplemental superfood […]

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