With a shovel
Currently, depression and anxiety are the most frequent psychological disorders in the world, and the situation generated by the covid-19 pandemic has only worsened their figures. In addition, we must not forget its close relationship with metabolic health and obesity, another disease that continues to rise like foam.
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Among the possible solutions to these clinical conditions, nutrition is key, and not a day goes by that a miracle diet does not appear, promising benefits beyond its true scope. Should we add the famous intermittent fasting in that category? It seems not.
These are his powers
Although it is fashionable now, our species has practiced intermittent fasting naturally for thousands of years. Homo sapiens has not always had food available 24/7.
The reason for the media and popular impact of the moment lies in its effectiveness as a method to lose weight and in the benefits attributed to it to reduce cardiometabolic risk.
For this reason, it is usually prescribed to patients who are overweight or obese and who show a predisposition to diabetes. Likewise, it influences, and a lot, that it is more bearable and can be maintained in the long term with less effort than continuous caloric restriction.
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