Re: What is a starvation diet?

I have read about CRON diets, fascinating stuff. Logic tells me that my body will utilise what it needs and knows what's best to do. I had always had this conflict between what I was told by others and what seemed common sense in the past about fasting. This forum has helped me resolve that conflict.

I was always told "if you don't eat your body will go into starvation mode and will conserve your weight, then when you eat you will put even more weight on". I thought, "how can my body be so stupid, I have eyes that can see shops, I know there is food around, why on earth will my body do this?". In actual fact, the advice given to me was complete nonsense, I know now. So I always tend these days to put more emphasis on how I instinctively feel about something, rather than what I read or hear.

Anyway, the point I was getting to was that I think that a very low calorie diet is probably similar to fasting, because my body doesn't just flip switches, e.g. digestive system OFF, or ON. This is what my instinct tells me. And the fact thet CRON diets are shown to prolong life on tests with mice and indeed on humans makes me generally think that fasting and CRON diets are good things, and perhaps similar in many ways.

On a side note, and similar to distilled Water Fast versus tap water fast, and Water Fasting versus low calorie debate, has anyone thought about the air we breathe? Would we be healthier and live longer breathing pure oxygen as opposed to 80% nitrogen 20% oxygen? Would a perfect detox fast be on distilled water and 100% oxygen? I have no idea, but I wouldn't mind betting that we would have a few problems on oxygen alone, because we are used to breathing the air around us, and this is what our bodies have adapted to. Tweet