{"id":4705,"date":"2017-03-01T08:46:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T15:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=4705"},"modified":"2017-03-01T08:47:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T15:47:43","slug":"fasting-mimicking-diet-fmd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=4705","title":{"rendered":"Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) &#8211; Intermittent Fasting (IF)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some recently published research out of University of Southern California shows some promising results for a diet that mimicks fasting for one week once a month. The diet asks for 1200 calories for the first fasting day and only 750 calories for the following 4 days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day one of the diet comprises: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"storylist\">\n<li><span class=\"inner-li\">10 per cent protein, 56 per cent fat and 34 per cent carbohydrate, making 1,090 calories<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Days two to five: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"storylist\">\n<li><span class=\"inner-li\">Nine per cent protein, 44 per cent fat and 47 per cent carbohydrate making 725 calories<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The diet is observed to jump-start the immune system and thereby generating a plaethora of positive health effects ranging from lower cholesterol and better cancer prevention\/recovery.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always interested in strategies that emulate the eating behaviors our ancesters were exposed to and our bodies adapted to over thousands of years. This appears to be a promising one &#8211; more research needed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/science\/science-news\/11683736\/Five-day-fasting-diet-slows-down-ageing-and-may-add-years-to-life.html\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/science\/science-news\/11683736\/Five-day-fasting-diet-slows-down-ageing-and-may-add-years-to-life.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some recently published research out of University of Southern California shows some promising results for a diet that mimicks fasting for one week once a month. The diet asks for 1200 calories for the first fasting day and only 750 calories for the following 4 days. Day one of the diet comprises: 10 per cent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=4705\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) &#8211; Intermittent Fasting (IF)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4707,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions\/4707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}