The Worlds Most Effective Diet
January 30, 2009
Is “fasting” the new mantra for healthy living. As per some think tanks, so it appears. There is a belief that a 36 hour long abstinence from food is in the long-run good for the body. It may look so but for those who have broken the first few weeks of this new-age thinking there is much jubilation. Some one reporting on their 60 weekly fast regime claiming “spaced out in a happy way”. What do we make of that?
The background on the subject goes like this; the underlying belief is that our ancestors were hunter-gathers. This genetic code is still part of our biological self. This makes us hard wired to eat when ever possible for the pleasurable experience derived. Having said that the resulting fact emerging in today’s world is ‘obesity’. So despite our genetic code given to us from our ‘hunter-gatherer’ ancestors, we may indulge ourselves with grotesque eating habits but it seems with modern ways of life the ‘hunting’ is less physical, and hence I guess the width of our waist lines has equally grotesquely bloated.
The dangers of obesity are well documented from simple high blood-pressure to down right heart attacks to final death. These really are issues and many have worked in their individual wisdom to come up with ways that work. So we will say one thing and yet someone will say some thing else, from exercising fitness fads to lifestyle gurus to diet pills we have so many ways to reach the same goal. It finally depends on what works for you. Is this the one for you?
There are studies that have been conducted that show our bodies function better when given less than what is normally considered apt. From protecting your tissues from being ravaged to protecting you from free radicals, to lowering blood pressure and even starving off diabetes is being credited to abstaining from food on a regular basic. There are many cultures around the world that use fasting as a regular way of cleansing their systems. You may know of the fasting month of Muslims around the world. In days gone by the orthodox Christian community fasted through out the Lent period leading up to Easter. Hinduism also advocates regularly fasting. So at the end of the day it may just not be a new age mantra, but one being raised from its ashes in our western world thinking.
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