Stuff yer face, keep the pounds off -- if you follow this rule
Spanish researchers found that mice who overate — but were only given food during certain windows, a practice known as intermittent fasting — didn't gain weight, defying commonly given advice that you should still eat healthy to reap the benefits of the popular trend.
For the study, obese mice were put on a 1:1 or 2:1 intermittent fasting regimen — meaning they were allowed to gorge for one or two days in a row on a 60% fat diet — followed by a full day of fasting.
5 Researchers found that intermittent fasting helped with weight, regardless of caloric intake.
doucefleur – stock.adobe.com
Even with this questionable diet, intermittent fasting prevented weight gain the same way a healthy diet would, the researchers found.
'The results could have important implications for people with obesity,' lead author Victòria Ceperuelo Mallafré, a researcher at the Joan XXIII Hospital in Tarragona, Spain, told The Post.
5 Victòria Ceperuelo Mallafré led the research.
Victòria Ceperuelo Mallafré/ Linkedin
She says this means there's alternatives to driving yourself crazy counting calories if you're conscious of your weight.
'One of the biggest challenges in losing weight is sticking to a strict diet with imposing sustained caloric restriction.'
5 Researchers looked at the effects of intermittent fasting on obese mice.
Sabriel Smutní½ – stock.adobe.com
Human dieters may not need to go to the extreme of fasting for a full day.
Preliminary, unpublished results from her research group suggest that fasting for just certain hours of the day could lead to improvements, Ceperuelo Mallafré said.
5 Researchers found intermittent fasting helped regulate blood sugar levels too, even when eating unhealthily.
Sia – stock.adobe.com
5 Researchers say the findings are important for the treatment of obesity and diabetes.
New Africa – stock.adobe.com
Typically, humans practice intermittent fasting by not eating for anywhere between 12 and 16 hours a day, usually overnight.
The mice studied also saw their blood sugar and cholesterol levels drop without having to cut their daily caloric intake.
The findings were published last month in medical journal The Lancet and are among the latest in a wide body of research pushing the purported benefits of intermittent fasting.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Boston Globe
9 hours ago
- Boston Globe
Owner of Fall River assisted living facility has come under legal scrutiny in the past
(Etzkorn currently owns Gabriel House through a company called Gabriel Care Inc., state records show.) But two Superior Court judges ruled in 2013 and 2015 that then-Attorney General Martha Coakley's office had obtained some financial records improperly and barred them from being used against Etzkorn during a trial, according to court documents. In the aftermath of the judicial rulings in Etzkorn's favor, prosecutors permanently ended the case against him in 2015, records show. Advertisement 'As reasons therefore, the Commonwealth states it is in the interests of justice,' prosecutors wrote in court papers. Etzkorn, In addition to owning Gabriel House, he owns the Plymouth Center for Behavioral Health and a company called Accurate Care, located in Rhode Island and Connecticut, according to his LinkedIn profile. Etzkorn has been a steady donor to Republican candidates in Massachusetts, including a donation he made while under indictment to then-gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker in 2014. Baker returned that money, Advertisement In another court case, Etzkorn was found to have wrongly fired a female Gabriel House worker in 2010 when she spoke up in support of a co-worker facing disciplinary action by managers at the Fall River facility, records show. According to Bristol Superior Court records, Etzkorn and Gabriel House managers wanted health care professionals to sign non-compete agreements. The fired employee told co-workers that non-competes were illegal but was fired only after she vowed to testify on behalf of a co-worker if necessary. The original allegation dated to 2010 and wound its way through a Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination hearing officer and then to the full MCAD, which ruled in 2019 that Etzkorn had retaliated against the employee, records show. Etzkorn then challenged the MCAD decision in Bristol Superior Court where Judge Merita A. Hopkins concluded in 2021 that Etzkorn wrongly fired the employee and agreed the female worker had been retaliated against, records show. Etzkorn was ordered to pay the woman $17,500 in lost income, $20,000.00 in damages, and $25,552.50 in attorney's fees at 12 percent interest, records show. It was not immediately known if Etzkorn paid the woman. Etzkorn is a Medfield resident whose home is currently assessed at $1.3 million, town records show. John R. Ellement can be reached at
Business Wire
9 hours ago
- Business Wire
Auna Announces Reporting Dates for Second Quarter 2025 Financial Results
LUXEMBOURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Auna S.A. (NYSE: AUNA) ('Auna' or 'the Company'), a leading Latin American healthcare services and plan provider with operations in Mexico, Peru and Colombia, announced today the reporting dates for its Second Quarter 2025 financial results. Earnings Release Tuesday, August 19, 2025 Time: After Market Close Conference Call Wednesday, August 20, 2025 Time: 8:00 a.m. ET Quiet Period Monday, August 4 through Tuesday, August 19, 2025 To participate, please dial +1 888 596 4144 (Toll-Free) +1 646 968 2525 (International) Entry Passcode: 3884034 Webcast: click here About Auna Auna is a leading horizontally and vertically integrated healthcare platform in Latin America with operations in Mexico, Peru, and Colombia, focusing on high-complexity diseases. Our mission is to transform healthcare by providing access to a highly integrated healthcare offering in the underpenetrated markets of Spanish-speaking Americas. Founded in 1989, Auna has built one of Latin America′s largest modern healthcare platforms that consists of a horizontally integrated network of healthcare facilities and a vertically integrated portfolio of oncological plans and selected general healthcare plans. As of March 31st, 2025, Auna's network included 31 healthcare network facilities, including hospitals, outpatient, prevention and wellness facilities with 2,323 beds, and 1.4 million healthcare plans. For more information visit
Yahoo
18 hours ago
- Yahoo
A clinic blames its closing on Trump's Medicaid cuts. Patients don't buy it.
CURTIS, Nebraska - The only health clinic here is shutting down, and the hospital CEO has blamed Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump's signature legislation. But residents of Curtis - a one-stoplight town in deep-red farm country - aren't buying that explanation. 'Anyone who's saying that Medicaid cuts is why they're closing is a liar,' April Roberts said, as she oversaw lunch at the Curtis Area Senior Center. Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. The retirees trickling in for fried chicken and soft-serve ice cream will be hit hardest when the clinic closes this fall, Roberts fears. Seniors who sometimes go in multiple times a month to have blood drawn will have to drive 40 miles to the next nearest health center. Sick people, she worries, will put off checkups and get sicker. Arriving for lunch, retired Navy veteran Jim Christensen said he'd read an op-ed that 'tried to blame everything on Trump.' 'Horse feathers,' he said, dismissing the idea. Curtis has become an early test case of the politics of Trump's agenda in rural America, where voters vulnerable to Medicaid cuts in Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' law are reluctant to blame the president or congressional Republicans who approved it. Many people in Curtis have directed their frustration at their hospital system instead of their representatives in Washington. Democrats and health care advocates are pointing to the town - population 806 in the last census - as a first casualty of Republicans' health care overhaul. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and others have referred to the town on social media as a model of what's to come for rural hospitals around the country. Close to half of rural hospitals nationwide already lose money, and analysts expect Trump's tax and spending law to add more strain. Community Hospital, the nonprofit that runs the clinic known as the Curtis Medical Center and a couple of other facilities in the region, plunged into the center of that national story when it announced on July 2 - one day before the bill's passage - that a confluence of factors had made its Curtis outpost unsustainable. It cited years-long financial challenges, inflation and 'anticipated federal budget cuts to Medicaid,' the public health insurance program for lower-income and disabled Americans. On Thursday morning, 73-year-old Sharon Jorgensen was scared the clinic had already shut its doors: She called and couldn't get someone to pick up. She needed a blood draw, so she went to the health center to see if someone was still there. It was open, after all. And now staff had a date for the closure. 'We have until Sept. 30,' Jorgensen told another local, 63-year-old Jo Popp, on her way out of the small brick building. 'I have to find a doctor. I don't have a doctor!' Popp would have to start taking a day off work for checkups, because of the drive. But she said she would try to follow the clinic's nurse practitioner - one of three people on staff - wherever she went. 'She knows us,' Jorgensen said. 'Right,' Popp said. 'She listens to us.' The clinic has been here longer than many people in town can remember, and people are struggling to make sense of the shutdown. The changes coming for Medicaid are complicated, and some won't take effect for years, which makes the timing even harder for residents to understand. Many know that Trump's bill will impose work requirements for Medicaid recipients, which seems reasonable to them, and some think - inaccurately - that the legislation was designed to end Medicaid coverage for undocumented immigrants. (An earlier version of the bill penalized states for using their own funds - separate from Medicaid - to insure the undocumented; that provision was stripped from the final bill on a technicality). Community Hospital was already losing money, and officials said they are trying to make sure they remain financially viable for the 30,000 people they serve throughout their facilities. But the timing of their decision to announce the Curtis closure has stoked suspicions in the town, leaving some residents convinced their health provider was using the president as a scapegoat. Popp, a three-time Trump voter, thought the president was cutting wasteful spending and didn't think he caused the closure. Jorgensen, a registered Republican who never voted for Trump, was frustrated that so few of her neighbors believed the Medicaid cuts played a role. 'They're huge Trumpers … and so it doesn't matter what he does - there's an excuse for it,' Jorgensen said. The retired corn and cattle farmer was used to being the odd one out in Frontier County, where 86 percent of the vote went to Trump last fall. One of those Trump supporters walked out of the clinic. 'My heart's good,' he told Jorgensen. 'Yay!' Jorgensen said. Trump repeatedly promised this year that he would not cut Medicaid. He expanded the GOP tent to include more low-income voters without college degrees, and some Republicans warned that any reduction in benefits would undercut their pitch that they are the new party of the working class. But Trump and Republican lawmakers needed to offset some of the enormous cost of the tax cuts, deportations and other campaign promises in their tax and spending law. So they turned to Medicaid. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated that about 12 million people will lose health coverage because of the law, which is nonetheless projected to add trillions to the federal debt over the next decade. Republicans say that changes like work requirements will reduce fraud and ensure Medicaid is available for those it was originally intended to serve, including pregnant women and the disabled. But researchers warn those requirements will create onerous paperwork that, in practice, will prevent eligible people from getting their benefits. Other changes in the law will disadvantage the vast majority of states that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, according to hospital groups and policy analysts, and will reduce payments to rural hospitals by reining in a financing mechanism they have long relied on to boost federal funds. KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research organization, estimates the bill would cause federal Medicaid spending in rural areas to drop by $155 billion - more than the $50 billion lawmakers set aside in the legislation to shore up rural hospitals. It's not fully clear how that $50 billion will be divided, adding to providers' uncertainty. Community Hospital declined to comment in detail on its financial picture but said in a statement that 'to ensure long-term sustainability, we must prioritize what lies ahead.' 'They're projecting where they're going to be at over the next couple of years, and if it's between jeopardizing the hospital or closing down a clinic, they're going to close a clinic,' said Jed Hansen, the executive director of the Nebraska Rural Health Association, who expects about 100,000 Nebraskans to lose health care as a result of the law. Rural health care facilities run on thin margins to serve small communities in far-flung locations. And they tend to have more patients on Medicaid, many of them self-employed farmers, small business owners and seasonal workers more likely to need public insurance. Hospital groups and executives have warned that some rural hospitals that long operated at a loss won't be able to stay open much longer, now that the Medicaid cuts have been voted in. Nationwide, far more people oppose Trump's bill than support it in polling, and Democrats hope the legislation will cost the GOP control of the House in the 2026 midterms. Even in Curtis, some unease at the Medicaid cuts is percolating. 'I'm not in agreement with this bill,' said 61-year-old Brenda Wheeler, a Republican who voted for Trump in 2016 but then soured on him and sat out last year's election. She was thinking about changing her registration to independent, upset at the cuts to Medicaid. 'When we talked about making America great again, I don't think this is what we all had in mind,' she said, as she stopped by the clinic. Down the road on the town's main street lined with American flags, Kerri Kemp said she didn't like the Medicaid cuts either. The 47-year-old got Medicaid coverage after Nebraska voters chose to expand eligibility for the program in 2018, adopting an optional part of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. But it was hard to document all her work as a bartender, county worker and rancher, and recently she'd struggled to submit the paperwork. Now she is uninsured. Work requirements could make it harder to qualify when they take effect in 2027, just after the 2026 midterms. But Kemp, a lifelong Republican and Trump supporter, doesn't hold that against Trump and suggested he might change course. 'I really think he's gonna do something,' she said. Sitting at his desk across the street - next to a miniature Trump head and a small red punching bag labeled 'Obama stress reliever' - Curtis Mayor Brad Welch called Community Hospital's comments on federal funding 'irresponsible.' 'I don't think the signing of the 'Big Beautiful Bill' had one thing to do with the closure of this clinic,' Welch said. Community Hospital officials said they had tried to find another group to take over the clinic, without luck. But the city administrator, Andrew Lee, was still hopeful. Roberts, the senior center director, wondered if a hospital 40 miles to the north could be persuaded. 'Maybe we need to talk to Andrew about really going and schmoozing them and trying to get them to come down here,' she told a senior who stopped by the counter to get some fried chicken to take home. 'Do something,' the woman echoed. 'I mean, it's really too bad.' - - - Yasmeen Abutaleb contributed to this report. Related Content He may have stopped Trump's would-be assassin. Now he's telling his story. He seeded clouds over Texas. Then came the conspiracy theories. How conservatives beat back a Republican sell-off of public lands
