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Jason Fung
Feasts and Fasts: Understanding the Rhythms of Life
Celebrations with family and friends are integral to a life well lived. Every once in a while, we need to remind ourselves that life is sweet and we are lucky to be alive. And throughout human history, we’ve done that through feasting. The very act of eating is a celebration of life, and when we celebrate important events, we do so with a feast. Any diet that does not acknowledge this fact is doomed to failure. We eat cake on our birthday. We have feasts on holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. We prepare wedding banquets. We go to a nice restaurant on our anniversary.
We don’t celebrate with birthday salad. We don’t eat wedding meal replacement bars. We don’t gorge on...
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Every year, the majority of the year’s weight gain happens in a short period of time around the holidays. The period from Thanksgiving to New Year’s covers only six weeks, but it accounts for roughly two-thirds of the year’s 1.4-pound (on average) weight gain.
A constant calorie-reduced diet does not match the cycle of feast and fast and is thus doomed to failure.
There are times that you should eat a lot. There are other times that you should be eating almost nothing. That is the natural cycle of life.
Most major religions acknowledge this by prescribing feasting at certain times—Christmas, for instance—and ...
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The ancient civilizations also knew this simple rhythm of life. When the harvest came in, they feasted. But t...
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Just before awakening (around 4:00 a.m.), the body secretes higher levels of growth hormone, cortisol, glucagon, and adrenaline.
These normal circadian hormonal surges
prepare our bodies for the day ahead.
these hormones gently get us read...
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All these hormones peak in the early morning hours and then fall to low levels during the day.
What has happened in the past fifty years or so is that we have kept all the feasting but eliminated all the fasting.
If you feast, you must fast.
Life is full of ups and downs, and we need to celebrate the ups because the downs are right around the corner.
One of the easiest ways to fit fasting into your life is to skip breakfast, since that’s not a meal we socialize over as much as lunch or dinner.
Any vegetable that grows above the ground • Leafy greens • Carrots • Onions or shallots • Bitter melon • Animal meat • Animal bones • Fish meat • Fish bones • Himalayan salt • Any herbs (dry or fresh) and spices • Ground flaxseed (1 tablespoon per
Sunday Breakfast: FAST Lunch: Strawberry and Kale Salad (here) Dinner: Homemade Chicken Fingers (here); Avocado Fries (here) Monday Breakfast: FAST Lunch: FAST Dinner: Chicken Stuffed Bell Peppers (here) Tuesday Breakfast: FAST Lunch: Arugula and Prosciutto Salad (here) Dinner: Game Day Wings (here) with veggie slices and balsamic vinaigrette Wednesday Breakfast: FAST Lunch: FAST Dinner: Chicken “Breaded” in Pork Rinds (here) Thursday Breakfast: FAST Lunch: Tomato, Cucumber, and Avocado Salad (here) Dinner: Chicken Drumsticks Wrapped in Bacon (here) with roasted bell peppers Friday Breakfast:
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