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Starvation literally means starvation. It doesn’t mean skipping a meal or not eating for 24 hours. Or not eating for three days even. The belief that meal skipping or short-term fasting causes “starvation mode” is so completely ridiculous and absurd that it makes me want to jump out the window. – Martin Berkhan

Is it a good thing to ‘starve’ yourself each day, or a few days of the week? Well, a tonne of evidence indicates that timed periods of fasting are a good thing.
Fasting has become increasingly popular over the years, especially among the health community. Whilst most health practitioners are afraid to recommend eating less due to the stigma involved, it still doesn’t alleviate the incredible benefits of fasting when used sensibly.

1. Fasting Helps Weight Loss
Fasting can be a safe way to lose weight as many studies have shown that intermittent fasting – fasting that is controlled within a set number of hours – allows the body to burn through fat cells more effectively than just regular dieting.
Intermittent fasting allows the body to use fat as it’s primary source of energy instead of sugar. Many athletesnow use fasting as means to hitting low body fat percentages for competitions.

2. Fasting Improves Insulin Sensitivity
Fasting has shown to have a positive effect on insulin sensitivity, allowing you to tolerate carbohydrates (sugar) better than if you didn’t fast. A study showed that after periods of fasting, insulin becomes more effective in telling cells to take up glucose from blood.

3. Fasting Speeds Up The Metabolism
Intermittent fasting gives your digestive system a rest, and this can energise your metabolism to burn through calories more efficiently. If your digestion is poor, this can effect your ability to metabolise food and burn fat. Intermittent fasts can regulate your digestion and promote healthy bowel function, thus improving your metabolic function.

4. Fasting Promotes Longevity
Believe it or not, the less you eat the longer you will live. Studies have shown how the lifespan of people in certain cultures increased due to their diets. However, we don’t need to live amongst a foreign community to reap the benefits of fasting. One of the primary effects of ageing is a slower metabolism, the younger your body is, the faster and more efficient your metabolism. The less you eat, the less toll it takes on your digestive system.

5. Fasting Improves Hunger
Just think about this, can you actually experience real hunger if you eat a meal every 3-4 hours? Of course you can’t. In fact, to experience the true nature of hunger, this would take anything from 12 to even 24 hours.
Fasting helps to regulate the hormones in your body so that you experience what true hunger is. We know that obese individuals do not receive the correct signals to let them know they are full due excessive eating patterns.
Think of fasting as a reset button: the longer you fast, the more your body can regulate itself to release the correct hormones, so that you can experience what real hunger is. Not to mention, when your hormones are working correctly, you get full quicker.

6. Fasting Improves Your Eating Patterns
Fasting can be a helpful practice for those who suffer with binge eating disorders, and for those who find it difficult to establish a correct eating pattern due to work and other priorities.
With intermittent fasting going all afternoon without a meal is okay and it can allow you to eat at a set time that fits your lifestyle. Also, for anyone who wants to prevent binge eating, you can establish a set time in where you allow yourself to eat your daily amount of calories in one sitting, and then not eat till the following day.

7. Fasting Improves Your Brain Function
Fasting has shown to improve brain function, because it boosts the production of a protein called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF.)
BDNF activates brain stem cells to convert into new neurons, and triggers numerous other chemicals that promote neural health. This protein also protects your brain cells from changes associated with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

8. Fasting Improves Your Immune System
Intermittent fasting improves the immune system because it reduces free radical damage, regulates inflammatory conditions in the body and starves off cancer cell formation.
In nature, when animals get sick they stop eating and instead focus on resting. This is a primal instinct to reduce stress on their internal system so their body can fight off infection. We humans are the only species who look for food when we are ill, even when we do not need it.

9. Fasting Contributes To Self-Enlightenment
Fasting has helped many people feel more connected to life during the practices reading, meditation, yoga and martial arts etc. With no food in the digestive system, this makes room for more energy in the body – the digestive is one of the most energy absorbing systems in the body.
Fasting for self-enlightenment, allows us to feel better both consciously and physically. With a lighter body and a clearer mind we become more aware and grateful for the things around us.

10. Fasting Helps Clear The Skin And Prevent Acne
Fasting can help clear the skin because with the body temporarily freed from digestion, it’s able to focus its regenerative energies on other systems.
Not eating anything for just one day has shown to help the body clean up the toxins and regulate the functioning of other organs of the body like liver, kidneys and other parts.

In some cultures, the women pay the bride price and are still treated very poorly, like India

kwaso:
This is a beautiful write up.
But how about the ladies that actually walk out of relationships because the guy is not 'man' enough? Is easier to sit and make good write ups like this but untill MAN STOPS PAYING BRIDE PRICES of WOMEN, this will remain a literature.

Are you saying that one of God's creation is a mistake? You indirectly just said God is not perfect .

Decryptor:
And secondly, when God was creating in the bible, he always said "it was good" but after creating eve, he never mentioned "it was good". SMH

That's if the devil exist

goingape:
this nonsense posts is to make the female LOOK more important to the society!

@op! I guess you must have given your manhood to the devil.

Nigeria has no future!

But you jst replied

Decryptor:
Comments as these deserve no reply

Abegi! Go and sleep!

Decryptor:
Guy....these things ARE REAL! I used to feel they were all delusions until I personally met a guy in Benin who wears one on his right finger. All he needs to do is tap that finger on the head of his victim and what ever he tells her is a done. He proved it all to me and a couple of friends when he told us to point at any random lady passing by and we did. This guy walked up to her, tapped her, they talked for about some minutes and VOILÀ.... THAT WAS IT. She followed him to his house and after like 20mins came out with her underwears to show us. We followed and saw her sound asleep in his room stark naked.

No ooo, it's not the same oh! Different type of pussiesss while have sex with your wife a thousand times is just 1 type. If you don't know the difference, you are just sad

ofemigeorge:
Sex with 1000 women is the same as having sex a 1000times wit your wife. Only difference is ego.

Is it by force to propose? Na d the man carry his hand propose.

loswhite:
When u propose to marry a woman who says yes or no? or na woman dey propose to you ni

Even though Man U win this match, they will still not qualify for champions league

Right now I'm watching Lucifer Season 1 , I love supernatural series, it reminds me of TVD. It's awesome and hilarious

Husband really? Very irrelevant. You suppose to say I NEED MONEY! With a successful career. Money in this life is oxygen to breath, without it you would die , without husband you won't die, instead you would succeed abundantly.

Tallysmallz:
I wanna marry. Drop your CV here.

Hard working men only.








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Cc Lalasticlala

"Drag you down the aisle" abi she put gun for your head ni? U no get choice? You are talking as if she's the one that would propose or pay bride price.

hardbody:
I guess its simply because the women wont let you keep jumping. They always want to drag you down the aisle and have you for keeps. Does that answer your question? I honestly do not want to respond to this thread.

“The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them.”
‭‭John‬ ‭15:13‬ ‭GNB‬‬
http://bible.com/296/jhn.15.13.gnb

Sacrificial life or a selfless life is putting people's needs before yours. Example of a man that lived a sacrificial life is Jesus.

If you want to overcome the fear of "The End Times" just don't care or don't believe in it

Now this is what I call "True Humanity"

GOAL! An advantage for man city.

Speak for yourself

chiefolododo:
Marriage endurance don help those who endure marriage

Sweet mother....I no go forget you, for all the suffer wey you suffer for me eh! Sweet mother aaaahhh! Sweet mother oooo!

This trend is just to provoke guys and toy with men's ego

Why are you trying to avoid the question. Just answer

Splinz:
It's obvious you've not been reading your bible well. Now go back to Genesis and start all over. This time, read it very slowly and pay good attention.

Cain came back and slept with his mother and bore children, that was the only way he could procreat, Eve was the only female that existed in the world at that time

Sirnose:
Hello peeps!..good evening
There has been a nagging question i have asking,but have'nt gotten an answer.
The question is,if God only created Adam and Eve,and they in turn begat Caine and Abel,who begot every other person on earth as at then.we are told that after God cast Caine out of His presence,he became a wanderer and eventually got a wife and married her(Gen.5 vs 17).
Where did this wife of Caine come from?
Did God created other people after Adam and Eve?
Why was it not recorded in d Bible?
Is the compilation of the Bible even complete?

That's why there are so many problems in Nigeria. The politicians, the government, even the artist are not educated, and Nigerian's education system is very poor. Imagine how Nigeria will be or how far Nigeria will grow if education was a priority. Look at the countries in different part of the world that has good education system and how education is a priority, they have good economy and their country continue to fluorish unlike Nigeria that lacks education. The reason why most Nigerians act uncivilised or do things without reason or knowledge is because of the lack of education. Nigeria will continue to be the same or even get worse of the education system is not improved. Educated people = Better self and better Nigeria.

emilil:
I totally disagree with you, take a good look at celebrities, Nigerian economy doesn't affect them, my father is being owed 3months salary, u are here blabbing nonsense

Nowadays men are the ones being suicidal, I thought it was the females, guess not.

Must it be anybody's fault? Aww, look at them soo cute

gist4kidsblog:
This leaders of tomorrow resort to kissing and smooching after writing their Final exams. This is really disgusting and shameless.

Whose Fault..?
1. The Teacher
2. The Parent
3. The Government

http://www.gistmelove..com/2016/05/secondary-school-students-kisses-and.html

What's the difference between a poor boy and a gold digger didn't you read the stories she wrote about gold digging men . You are advising her to make the same mistake over and over again. You are funny oh! . She should date guys on her level that's the best and only solution.

Mutuwa:
you should thank the almighty that men even approach you,there are girls out there,that dogs don't even smell.
thing is you have to continue your search with abundant efforts,the right man will come.you cannot change the fact that you are well to do,even if you try to hide it just to get a descent man,it may only take a while for him to discover and switch to gold digging mode.

why don't you try dating a poor boy for a change?

Because they are a hoe-ass-monkey-golddigging-negroosss

mizlolar:
Please i need ur help. Am having challenges in area of relationship. I have the problem of ending up with men who are nothing but gold diggers. They seem good from the start but before a few months, they will turn into pests.

I dont know what is responsible for this. I just need a man who ll love me on the basis of who i am not what i have. I am from a well to do family, I am the only daughter of my parents and my dad is late, I actually inherited quite a lot and initially it seemed like a blessing until I got older.

All the Guys i ve met so far re fake displaying fake love just to get hold of what is in my possession. I will give you a little insight so you can understand what I am going tru. Around 2013, my then fiance kidnapped himself and because i already knew he was too needy and then their was a lot of inconsistencies in the story so i ignored the kidnappers who were demanding for 700k ransom. The guys showed up 2 weeks later fuming without any injuries or even shedding any weight


He was ranting and saying all sorts like how wicked i was and how i abandoned him to die. I had to break it off immediately because he was beginning to sound like i was his mother and father joined together. The next relationship went quite the same way.


The guy sold my car and came up with stories of how he was robbed at onipanu by palm-grove. unfortunately for him, i had a tracker which had its own inbuilt battery, so when they disconnected the car battery thinking they have disabled the tracker, they gaffed. the car was subsequently tracked down to shagamu at a hotel managed by his cousin. these are just the few recent ones.

There are many more experiences that i wouldn’t bother you with but I am tired. the worst is that some will even want to move in with me because of the comfort of my place. Its really frustrating. My mum said i should stop driving but its nearly impossible for me to get around lagos without a car.


I simply stopped using the big cars and got a Toyota matrix and i even had to drive myself so it dosnt look like i am the one attracting the wrong men and scaring away the good ones yet i haven’t been lucky.


I am not looking for a millionaire, I just want a man with a little dignity and value not the ones who will start demanding for loans or come up with stories within months of how their visa was stuck or how their mother was diabetic and needed money for blood transfusion. I have heard a lot of such stories and i am tired.


I dont know if my mum is right that i am scaring away the right ones with my lifestyle. Honestly, i dont even live flamboyantly neither do I club. I am in my early 30’s and i really need to settle down.


Plz help me with ideas on how to stop attracting gold digging shameless men. As at now, 4 guys re on my neck including head of admin in my firm but they are all my subordinates and I don’t want a scandal. Thank u.

Please advice. I don't need abuse from you guys... Thanks