CosBeauty Magazine #85
CosBeauty is the #BeautyAddict's guide to lifestyle, health and beauty in Australia. In this issue: - The Breast Report - your guide to augmentation - Put an end to bad hair days - 24 hour makeup, products that last - Sex appeal - do you have it?
CosBeauty is the #BeautyAddict's guide to lifestyle, health and beauty in Australia.
In this issue:
- The Breast Report - your guide to augmentation
- Put an end to bad hair days
- 24 hour makeup, products that last
- Sex appeal - do you have it?
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Alternate Day<br />
Fasting<br />
Professor Krista Varady created the<br />
Every-Other-Day Diet, based on<br />
her groundbreaking research into<br />
‘alternate-day modified fasting’ at<br />
the University of Illinois in Chicago.<br />
Proponents describe it as ‘the diet<br />
that lets you eat all you want (half<br />
the time) and keep the weight off!’<br />
The plan involves alternate<br />
‘fast’ and ‘feast’ days. Fasting days<br />
consist of a single 500 calorie meal<br />
at lunchtime. But then there is no<br />
restriction on what, when or how<br />
much is eaten on feasting days.<br />
The two key attractions are:<br />
• The promise that ‘you’ll lose<br />
weight and improve your health<br />
– while eating anything you want<br />
and all you want, every other day’;<br />
• Where most diets include a<br />
daunting set of rules to be obeyed<br />
– what you can eat and can’t eat,<br />
how much you can and can’t eat,<br />
when you can and can’t eat – here<br />
there is only one rule: eat no more<br />
than 500 calories on Diet Day,<br />
eat anything you want and as<br />
much as you want on Feast Day.<br />
That’s it. No counting calories,<br />
carbs, fat or protein. No avoiding<br />
any particular food; all foods<br />
are allowed. No complex meal<br />
preparations and plans.<br />
Two Days Per<br />
Week Fasting<br />
Developed by popular UK TV<br />
medico Dr Michael Mosley, the Fast<br />
Diet involves fasting for two days<br />
per week. People maintain their<br />
usual eating routines for the other<br />
five days. Dr Mosley sums up: ‘If we<br />
were to distil the Fast Diet into a<br />
single soundbite, it would all come<br />
down to 5:2. That’s five days of<br />
normal eating, with little thought<br />
to calorie control and a slice of pie<br />
for pudding if that’s what you<br />
want. Then, on the other two days,<br />
you reduce your calorie intake to<br />
500 calories for women and 600<br />
calories for men.’<br />
Proponents claim that since you<br />
are only fasting for two days of your<br />
choice each week – and eating<br />
normally on the other five days –<br />
there is always something new and<br />
tasty on the horizon. In short, it’s<br />
easy to comply with a regime that<br />
only asks you to restrict your calorie<br />
intake occasionally. It ‘recalibrates<br />
the diet equation, and stacks the<br />
odds in your favour’.<br />
Importantly, the plan is designed<br />
as a ‘well-signposted path towards a<br />
longer, healthier life’; weight<br />
loss is ‘simply a happy adjunct to<br />
all of that’.<br />
Hence, according to Dr Mosley,<br />
this eating plan can not only help<br />
people lose weight, but offers an<br />
array of other health benefits:<br />
‘Studies of intermittent fasting<br />
show that not only do people see<br />
improvements in blood pressure and<br />
their cholesterol levels, but also in<br />
their insulin sensitivity.’<br />
And how did he come up with<br />
the recommendation that women<br />
have 500 calories and men have<br />
600 calories on a Fast Day?<br />
Dr Mosley explains: ‘We used<br />
the rule of thumb that women need<br />
2,000 calories and men need 2,400<br />
calories per day and on a Fast Day<br />
you should eat a quarter of a normal<br />
day’s recommended calories.’