Do you know what happened to the subjects who went on the 800kcal diet and did resistance/cardio training? Did their bodys adapt to the 800kcal level?

They obviously started eating normally again, what would be their maintance caloric intake now?

I’ve been sharing the article with people and this is one of their questions.

I actually only quickly reviewed those titles. Most of them speak to the spiritual/cleansing benefits of fasting which was not part of my original lit review.

They are something I may go back and review at a later time.

B

I live in a country with a huge very devout muslim minority, have quite a few fasting-for-life muslim friends. Guess what, I never seen one of them that’s not skinny. I’m not saying they don’t have obese people, i’m saying they don’t even have anyone above lean/skinny.

http://digg.com/food_drink/This_ain_t_your_momma_s_nutrition_exam_weightloss_automatic

Should provide good backlinks/traffic to brad’s blog.

I loved the test, I submitted it to stumble-upon too, should get a lot of traffic/interest.

The Fasting Diet: A Practical Five-day Program for Increased Energy, Greater Stamina and a Clearer Mind by Steven Bailey

Fasting–and Eating–for Health: A Medical Doctor’s Program for Conquering Disease by Joel Fuhrman

Health Through New Thought and Fasting – You: On A Diet by Wallace D. Wattles and Elizabeth Towne

The Fasting Handbook: Dining from an Empty Bowl by Jeremy Safron

just as examples. Now, I haven’t read these but maybe in researching your book, you have. I am curious as to whether your book offers anything new – apart from slightly more up to date research.

Thank you

Funny, in my 2nd and 3rd year we had to take courses on nutritional counseling and I thought they were a complete waste of time…boy was I wrong.

All the scientific knowledge doesn’t help if it can’t be applied practically or reasonably.

B

Ramadan involves fasting for roughly a month, sunrise to sunset. Depending on the study, you will find both weight loss and no weight loss as a result of Ramadan.

The typical reason for the lack of weight loss is the practice of eating a lot of calories after sundown and before sunrise, enough to make up for the fast.

Which books are you referring too exactly? If they cover the exact same topic (the scientific literature that supports the practice of fasting) then the only difference would be a) different authors and b) Eat Stop Eat covers any research that was published after the date of those books release.

B

Also how is EatStopEat different to other books published a few years ago about the benefits of fasting?