"'The Fast Diet' may make you smarter and happier"

[applegrove]

'The Fast Diet' may make you smarter and happier

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/health&id=9015020

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According to the diet's creator Doctor Michael Mosley, women are restricted to eat 500 calories or less for two days while men are allowed to consume 600.

The calories can be consumed in one meal or over the course of the day, but translate to 25 percent of a normal adult's daily intake.

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"What they found in rats is when they are deprived of food their brain starts producing a protein called brain derived neuro-traffic factor," Dr. Mosley said. "What this does is it makes you feel happier and what it also appears to do is make you smarter."

In addition to the improved brain function, researchers have found severe calorie restriction in a controlled environment can lead to decreased cancer risk, and increased life expectancy.

The diet has become extremely popular in Britain.



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[applegrove]

1. I'm going to have to try this.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. It would be a mistake to reduce your calories this much.

Don't do it is my recommendation.

[applegrove]

6. I need to do something or I will get diabetes. I don't want that. I'll give it a go and

see if it isn't an easier way to lose weight. And maintain. I don't want to be skinny by any means. I just want to not be obese. I'm almost 50 afterall. I tried only drinking herbal teas at night and sticking to 1300 calories a day. I was eating healthy but not losing any weight. I was considering going back on a no carb diet (which never lasts - you gain the weight back). This is something I might be able to maintain.

[RebelOne]

10. Many years ago, I went on a 900-calorie a day diet for several weeks.

It worked fine and I did not have any health complications. I have been dieting most of my life. In the '70s, I lived on diet pills, but nowadays you cannot get the good ones. Now, when I put on a few pounds, I just do a starvation diet for a few days. Good thing that I am a vegetarian now because I am not eating cholesterol-loaded meat.

[NYC_SKP]

3. What would you choose to constitute your 500 cals, applegrove?

I would go with salmon for protein and a lot of vegetables, green, like brocolli and spinach.

What would you do with such a small allowance?

[applegrove]

5. Milk for sure. Veggie powder drink perhaps too. If I'm at my parents', a salad.

[Scuba]

4. Couple shots of tequila will also make you seem happier and smarter.

The happier one might just not be a mirage.

[Betsy Ross]

12. I'll drink to that! nt

[Kali]

7. I eat like this too often - it won't work.

trust me.

[Honeycombe8]

8. The only time I've been able to do this was when I was severely depressed.

It didn't make me happy. So much for the scientific study. Maybe because I'm not a rat?

My theory is that when your system isn't bogged down with a bunch of junk, or heavy food, or processed food, you feel lighter, you feel better, and your brain works better, as do your muscles. I know I feel that way, when I have light eating days when I eat no processed food, and not very much - because I'm busy or whatever.

Conversely, I love some fattening foods, like fried chicken and sugar free ice cream. Whenever I eat that, I feel heavy and sluggish a bit, I've noticed. Not that that stops me from eating it. Although I wouldn't eat that on a day when I have a hard work day.

[applegrove]

9. I did a diet when I was a young adult that started out the same. Not much to eat

the first two days. Then you eat healthy the rest of the time and I lost weight successfully this way. Forgot about it.

[femmocrat]

11. My brain would be too busy telling my stomach that I'm starving.

I wouldn't feel happier or smarter, believe me!

[Skittles]

13. ridiculous

[trueblue2007]

14. i saw this highlighted on tv ... there is a book out

and supposedly it is SAFE