Is Intermittent Fasting a Healthy Way to Lose Weight?
If you skip meals just to lose weight without a nutritionist’s guidelines, chances are, you might miss out on the food values that are necessary for the body.
Dieudonne Bukaba, a private nutritionist at Avega Clinic Remera, says intermittent fasting (IF) is an eating style where you eat within a specific time period, and fast the rest of the time. Though intermittent fasting is an effective way to lose weight, it’s less a diet and more a lifestyle choice. He adds, there are different intermittent fasting methods. With bulletproof intermittent fasting, you get the benefits of fasting without feeling like you’re starving yourself.
“When you don’t eat any food for a set period of time each day, you do your body and your brain a whole lot of good. It makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint. For most of history, people weren’t eating three square meals a day, plus grazing on snacks. Instead, humans evolved in situations where there wasn’t much food, and they learned to thrive when fasting. Nowadays, we don’t have to hunt for food, rather, we spend most of our days in front of computers, and we eat whenever we want even though our bodies aren’t adapted to this behaviour,” he notes.
Excerpted from The New Times
