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Originally Posted by splatbass
As I previously posted, the Mayo Clinic and Web MD disagree with you. You are pushing snake oil. A fad diet.
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The Mayo Clinic and WebMD aren't up to date on their research. I'm not trying to attack you. It's simply that research proves their assertions incorrect, and there is a LOT of it.
Metabolic rate increased after 48 hours of no food (not that anyone practicing Intermittent Fasting does this on any kind of regular basis):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2405717
Metabolic rate increased in days 1-4 of 84 hrs without food (again, not something that a fasting diet teaches you to do, but it's sufficient to make the point):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10837292
There are literally hundreds of peer-reviewed research papers you can find on places like Pubmed that have to do with fasting, its benefits (AND the negatives of it), and the results that people have with such diets. It very well may BE a "fad," but that doesn't make it ineffectual.
There are an incredibly large number of very smart people who have gone out of their way to research these kinds of diets very thoroughly, and they freely display the information, as well as links to all of the research so that you can see for yourself, on their websites. Alan Aragon, Martin Berkhan, Lyle McDonald . . . all great minds that support IF protocols. Alan Aragon was even offered the job as the team nutritionist for the L.A. Kings. A "snake oil" salesman he is not.
I'm simply saying that you should do a bit more research than just a cursory scan of the internet before making such declarative statements. We should all be perpetual students. And it's okay to be wrong. It's just not okay to continue to be obstinate in the face of evidence. And if newer, better research begins to come out that shows IF to be a bad thing, I'll have no choice but to agree. We haven't reached that point, though.
So, if you want, leangains.com, alanaragonblog.com, bodyrecomposition.com are all good places that you can go to easily and quickly find all kinds of scientific information showing why such diets work, how to do them properly and how to avoid the pitfalls of them.