Carolyn re: fasting

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> Here's a link to a delightful series of writings from a 16th

century

> CRONIE. http://www.harvestfields.netfirms.com/etexts/03/01.htm

Thank you for sending the above link and for the info from Health

Magazine.

You mentioned mice.....here is something I ran across which I found

interesting:

http://www.nia.nih.gov/news/pr/2003/0210.htm

Here is a short quote:

" Fasting Forestalls Huntington's Disease in Mice

Decreasing meal frequency and caloric intake protects nerve cells

from genetically induced damage, delays the onset of Huntington's

disease-like symptoms in mice, and prolongs the lives of affected

rodents, according to investigators at the National Institute on

Aging (NIA) Intramural Research Program. This animal study is the

first to suggest that a change in diet can influence the course of

Huntington's disease.

" If reducing food intake has the same effects in humans as it does

in mice, then it may be theoretically possible to delay the onset of

the disease and extend the lives of Huntington's patients by

prescribing low-caloric diets or diets with reduced meal frequency, "

says Mark Mattson, Ph.D., chief of the NIA's Laboratory of

Neurosciences. The study will be published in the Proceedings of the

National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition the week of

February 10 (doi:10.1073/pnas.0536856100). "

As a religious practice, I fast for 24 hours once a month. I would

be interested in your fasting habits as well as others in this Group

who'd like to share their experience. You mentioned that you fast 1-

2 days per week.

The concept of eating only during four hours each day and fasting

the other 20 was also interesting to me. As a rule, my first meal

is about ten in the morning and I never eat past 6:00pm. I've

gotten pretty good at CR but am still " tweaking " my ON.

Thx again for the info you sent!

Laurie

[Guest guest]

>

> > Here's a link to a delightful series of writings from a 16th

> century

> > CRONIE. http://www.harvestfields.netfirms.com/etexts/03/01.htm

>

>

> Thank you for sending the above link and for the info from Health

> Magazine.

>

> You mentioned mice.....here is something I ran across which I found

> interesting:

>

> http://www.nia.nih.gov/news/pr/2003/0210.htm

>

> Here is a short quote:

>

> " Fasting Forestalls Huntington's Disease in Mice

>

> Decreasing meal frequency and caloric intake protects nerve cells

> from genetically induced damage, delays the onset of Huntington's

> disease-like symptoms in mice, and prolongs the lives of affected

> rodents, according to investigators at the National Institute on

> Aging (NIA) Intramural Research Program. This animal study is the

> first to suggest that a change in diet can influence the course of

> Huntington's disease.

>

> " If reducing food intake has the same effects in humans as it does

> in mice, then it may be theoretically possible to delay the onset >

of the disease and extend the lives of Huntington's patients by

> prescribing low-caloric diets or diets with reduced meal

frequency, "

> says Mark Mattson, Ph.D., chief of the NIA's Laboratory of

> Neurosciences. The study will be published in the Proceedings of >

the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition the week of

> February 10 (doi:10.1073/pnas.0536856100). "

Snip

Hi All,

No publication described above ensued. Mortality relative to fasting

has never been reported to be operational if it is corrected for the

CR as far as I know.

Cheers, AL.