For the last few years, nutritionists have been saying more and more that it's important to keep eating every couple of hours, avoiding the stomach from being hungry enough to ultimately eat even more - however, a new study has shown that the contrary, a feast and famine diet, could actually help reach a longer lifespan and prevent age-related diseases.
It seems like a good way to go through a longer life is to go through a feast and famine diet, which is to say, eat a lot and then wait a fair amount until the next meal; this comes after nutritionists have said for years that the healthy thing to do is eat small amounts every couple of hours.
According to Science Daily, the new study about the feast and famine diet was made by the University of Florida and was published in a paper called "Practicality of Intermittent Fasting in Humans and its Effect on Oxidative Stress and Genes Related to Aging and Metabolism" that was published in the last issue of the journal Rejuvenation Research.
DNA India recounts that the feast and famine diet findings saw that skipping meals or downright reducing the caloric intake could potentially increase the lifespan of mice as well as reduce the possibility of them getting age-related illnesses, as it increased SIRT 3 gene along with SIRT3 protein, which is the one particularly responsible for the elongating lifespan.
Of course, it's hard for anyone to go through this kind of diet at all times without going insane, and this is why the scientists behind the research, including co-author Martin Wegman, have said that the feast and famine diet could be done sporadically.
The Daily Mail reports that the findings regarding the feast and famine diet were later converted into an actual eating program called the 5:2 diet created by Mchael Mosley, which involves women reducing their caloric intake to 500 per day, twice a week, with men doing the same except changing the caloric intake to 600 per day in those two days.
