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Intermittent fasting may help you live longer and improve overall health – Daily Mail
Restricting eating times to just 6-8 hours every day could help you live longer and fight obesity, diabetes and cancer, according to study on Intermittent fasting
- While many fad diets, like keto, have been proven unsustainable or even, in some cases, harmful, intermittent fasting has by and large held up to scientific testing
- Intermittent fasting consists of either daily time-restricted feeding of 6-8 hours or 5:2 fasting, where people eat one moderate-sized meal two days each week
- Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist Dr Mark Mattson says in new study that benefits of fasting regimen includes improvements in ‘glucose regulation’
- Intermittent fasting also improves blood pressure and heart rate, study shows
- Mattson also writes that ‘intermittent fasting could be part of a healthy lifestyle’
A new study has revealed that intermittent fasting may help you live longer and improve your overall health.
While many fad diets, such as keto, have been proven unsustainable or even, in some cases, harmful, intermittent fasting has by and large held up to scientific testing.
Intermittent fasting diets, fall generally into two categories: daily time-restricted feeding, which narrows eating times to 6-8 hours per day, and the so-called 5:2 intermittent fasting, in which people limit themselves to one moderate-sized meal two days each week.
According to a recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the benefits of intermittent fasting includes improvements in ‘glucose regulation, blood pressure, and heart rate’.
In the study, Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist Dr Mark Mattson writes that intermittent fasting may be able to help many health conditions like obesity, diabetes, mellitus, cardiovascular disease and cancers.
A new study has revealed that intermittent fasting may help you live longer and improve your overall health. While many fad diets, like keto, have been proven unsustainable or even, in some cases, harmful, intermittent fasting has by and large held up to scientific testing
For example, the American Heart Association estimates that 47 million people in the US have metabolic syndrome, a network of symptoms that often precedes diabetes.
About a third of US adults at least three of five risk factors that make up metabolic syndrome: high blood sugar, high blood pressure, high triglyceride levels, low levels of ‘good,’ HDL cholesterol and abdominal obesity.
About 85 per cent of people who have this network of symptoms also have type 2 diabetes.
Those with both conditions are at far greater risk of developing heart disease or suffering strokes as well.
But intermittent fasting could reduce risks of diabetes. Fasting can also increase stress resistance and suppress inflammation, according to the paper.
Mattson, who has studied the health impact of intermittent fasting for 25 years, and adopted it himself about 20 years ago, writes that ‘intermittent fasting could be part of a healthy lifestyle’.
According to Mattson, preliminary studies suggest that intermittent fasting could benefit brain health too.
Mattson referred to a clinical trial at the University of Toronto in April that found that 220 healthy, non-obese adults who maintained a calorie restricted diet for two years ‘showed signs of improved memory in a battery of cognitive tests’.
In the study, Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist Dr Mark Mattson writes that intermittent fasting may be able to help many health conditions like obesity, diabetes, mellitus, cardiovascular disease and cancers
Noting that far more research needs to be done ‘to prove any effects of intermittent fasting on learning and memory’, Mattson says if that proof is found, the fasting – or a pharmaceutical equivalent that mimics it – ‘may offer interventions that can stave off neurodegeneration and dementia’.
‘We are at a transition point where we could soon consider adding information about intermittent fasting to medical school curricula alongside standard advice about healthy diets and exercise,’ he said.
Mattson says the new study is intended to help clarify the science and clinical applications of intermittent fasting in ways that may help physicians guide patients who want to try it.
He says that with some guidance and patience, most people can incorporate the fasting regimens into their lives.
‘Patients should be advised that feeling hungry and irritable is common initially and usually passes after two weeks to a month as the body and brain become accustomed to the new habit,’ Mattson says.
WATERLOO REGION — The incidence rate of COVID-19 in the region continued a slow decline over the weekend, and has now reached the lowest level since last October.
According to the latest numbers released Sunday by Waterloo Region Public Health, the seven-day moving average rate of cases per 100,000 population fell to 2.5 cases per 100,000.
Although the incidence of COVID in the region is still three times higher than the provincial rate of 0.8 cases per 100,000, it’s a considerable improvement over early July, when new infections in the region were being reported at six times the provincial rate.
Sunday’s incidence rate is the lowest the region has seen since Halloween.
Part of that decline is attributable to vaccination, as more people get shots in arms.
As of Saturday, 81.36 per cent of the region’s residents over age 12 have received at least one dose, while 64.63 per cent have been fully vaccinated.
But it’s clear that it’s becoming more challenging to reach the remaining residents who haven’t yet been vaccinated.
The pace of daily vaccinations has dropped by almost half since peaking July 11. This mirrors a provincial decline as those eager to get immunized have done so.
The vast majority of shots given in July have been second doses to complete full vaccinations. Only 510 first doses were administered Saturday out of 4,969 given to regional residents, some of them from a new mobile vaccination bus that visited the St. Jacobs market.
The number of positive cases in the region increased by nine, for a total of 18,280 since the pandemic began. It’s the first time since Oct. 26 that the daily increase in cases has been in single digits.
Other indicators also showed positive trends.
The number of active cases dropped overnight by 10 to 124.
The number of outbreaks decreased by one, for a total of eight outbreaks.
The number being treated for COVID in hospital remained steady at 13, while the number of those who have died from the virus was also unchanged at 282. Thirteen people were being treated in intensive care, unchanged from Saturday.
The number of variants of concern remained steady at 4,579.
A total of 537,724 test have been carried out in the region.
BEIRUT, July 24 (Reuters) – Jordan will start vaccinating children aged 12 years and older against COVID-19 from Sunday, the state news agency said on Saturday.
Children can be given the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine with the approval of a guardian with no prior appointment necessary, the agency quoted the health ministry as saying.
The decision comes as Jordan lifted most restrictions at the start of July, reopening gyms, pools and night clubs at hotels after cases dropped from a peak in March when several thousands of new cases were recorded daily.
Total active cases reached 7,489 on Friday with 331 new cases and four deaths.
Since the start of the pandemic, Jordan has recorded a total of 763,437 cases and 9,933 deaths.
Several other countries in the region are vaccinating children, including Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Reporting By Maha El Dahan Editing by Clelia Oziel
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After a Hillsong Church member who derided the vaccine online died of COVID-19, its founder called the shot a 'personal decision' – Yahoo Movies Canada
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A Hillsong Church member in his 30s died of COVID-19 this week after declining to get vaccinated.
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The man, who lived in California, had derided the vaccine online and joked about the coronavirus.
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Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston told CNN the vaccine was a “personal decision.”
After a congregant of the Hillsong Church in California refused to get vaccinated and died from COVID-19 complications, its founder is not encouraging the shot.
Brian Houston, founder and global senior pastor at Hillsong, told CNN vaccines are a “personal decision for each individual to make with the counsel of medical professionals.”
Stephen Harmon, who was in his early 30s, was part of a Hillsong Church in California and a graduate of Hillsong College in Mesa, Arizona. Houston said on Instagram Thursday Harmon had died from COVID-19.
Read more: Don’t punish the vaccinated – make it harder to choose to be unvaccinated
“He was one of the most generous people I know and he had so much in front of him,” Houston wrote.
Hillsong Church, based in Australia, is a popular megachurch with celebrities such as Justin Bieber and Vanessa Hudgens. Recently, the church has been accused of racist and anti-LGBTQ behavior.
Prior to his death, Harmon had makes jokes online about the coronavirus and said he was not vaccinated, Insider’s Ashley Collman reported.
In a June 3 tweet, he referenced Jay-Z’s song “99 Problems” and wrote: “If you’re having email problems, I feel bad for you, son. I got 99 problems but a vax ain’t one!”
On July 8, he again posted an anti-vaccine joke even after he was sick with COVID-19 and in an isolation ward, writing: “And no, i will not be getting vaccinated once i am discharged and released.”
In his post about Harmon, Houston wrote, “Stephen’s thoughts on vaccines were his own.”
“They do not represent the views and thoughts of Hillsong Church. Many of our pastors, staff, and congregation are fully vaccinated and more will be when vaccines become available to them in their countries,” he added.
Insider has reached out to Hillsong Church for comment.
Have a news tip? Contact this reporter at kvlamis@insider.com.
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