A trend diet is the interval fasting, in which alternating and fitting is alternately fasted every day: in the 5/2 variant, eat the fast five days as normal and then only consume very few calories for two days. There have already been indications that these and similar variants could be helpful to lose weight; However, a really waterproof scientific investigation was pending. A team of nutritionists wanted to change this and, according to his own statement, presented "the first" randomized, prospective study on the 5/2 fasting: an examination in which volunteers should hold out different variants of the diet for over a year, whereupon The success was then checked independently. The diet helps to remove, the result - possibly for other reasons than suspected, writes the team around Katie Myers Smith from Queen Mary University in London in the journal "Plos One".
The team led by Smith tested the success of interval fasting with 300 overweight people of both sexes, which it divided into three experimental groups: one essentially received a one-time detailed nutritional advice and regular diet tips, while two others were to follow the 5/2 interval fasting in a slightly modified procedure. In these groups, the supportive support during the one-year test period and the information policy differed: one group was encouraged to conduct it independently, the other instead completed regular group meetings with professional support from diet consultants in the first time.
At the end of the year, at least a moderate success in losing weight showed up in all three groups. For example, 15 percent of the participants lost 5 percent body weight in the comparison group that was sensitized to diet for the diet for the diet. The two interval fasting groups made up a little better: As a percentage of the participants in the control group, 18 percent of the independently organized test group and 28 percent of the parliamentary group with regular group meetings decreased. Intervall fasting may really help you lose weight a little better - the differences are not excitingly clear, the group concludes.
During the follow-up of the experiment, however, the team noticed a striking difference that had nothing directly to do with the success in losing weight: In the final survey at the end of the experiment, the participants of the intermittent fasting were almost always more satisfied with their one-year experience than the people from the control group. For example, they felt better informed, would repeat the experiment more often, and said more often that they would recommend the diet to others. A random follow-up following the experiment also suggests that intermittent fasters are more likely to stick to the diet.
Overall, interval fasting is more fun, concludes Smith and her colleagues - or at least less stressful. This could actually explain why greater successes occur in that type of fasting: the participants of this diet no more or faster than with other, rather traditional forms of fasting - the interval fasting is easier for the participants and simply more pleasant , says Smith.
