Take A Look At This Theory part2

LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THIS THEORY: (part 2)

"But theysay thatwhen you fast you will lose MUSCLE!"

Do you really think your body's internal survival mechanism is so stupid that it will take only your muscle tissue directly and not defend it?

Let me ask you…

If your right hand is broken and in a cast and your left hand is normal, and you eat the same food every day for a month and after a month, what happens? You cut the plaster off of your hand and what do you discover? What happens?

Which hand will lose muscle mass? Right hand or left?

Yes! Your right hand with CAST will shrink, right? That means whatever youeat it will remain smaller because there is no external stimulussuch as motion or exercise! Our body is smart.

"Some nutritionists claim that the levels of your testosterone maybe decreased during fasting.”

Testosterone is very important for the growth of muscle in the human body both for men and for women. In women thelevel issmallerso women should not be afraid ofgaining large amounts of muscle like men do when they are lifting weights.But is it true that when fasting these levels will decrease?

Many athletes resort to using testosterone injections to build muscle mass and reduce fat. Consequently it is believed that fasting can reduce testosterone levels. In fact, testosterone will increase 20% - 30% in the morning when people wake up. This means that the levels increase not when we eat butwhile we sleep. The level of testosterone has long been observed to have little if no connection with dieting. When a personreducescaloric intake by 15% it has been shown not to interfere with testosterone at all in healthy humans. Other studies say that rising levels of fat are associated with decreased testosterone levels or that higher levels of fat can possibly reduce testosterone levels. This is frequently interpreted to mean that if we reduce fat, we can raise our testosterone levels.

In a study of obese people who are dieting using reduced caloric intake it was shown that they exhibited lower testosterone levels than people who eat normally. This research was not accompanied with exercise. So what happens is simply the process of starvation. Starvation process is different from the concept of fasting. Remember, that fasting is never intended to starve a person because starvation is a system designed to reduce the intake of calories.

It is true that testosterone levels will decrease slightly when a person fasts for 58 to 84 hours, but is only slightly reduced and is considered still within normal levels. It will not make significant change if you do not fast more than 9 full days without incoming caloric intake.

It has been proven that fasting for a short time does not have a negative effect on testosterone levels.

“Eating 6 times a day with a fewcalories is better than 1 or 2 times with a large intake of calories.”

You've no doubt heard it from multiple sources that if you eat 6 times a day it is better for burning calories, provides adequate protein and also preserves muscle mass. Most of this theory says that if we eat 6 timesa day with smaller quantities of calories, the metabolism and energy expenditure will be improved. Actually, if we want to investigate further, this idea possibly originated from the hypothesis of a man named J. V. Neel.

In his research called The Thrifty Genotype, this study has been interpreted anddeveloped by many researchers and is also often misunderstood. This hypothesis states that humans have a survival mechanism that stores fat to be used in an emergency. From this study, manyconcluded that with small but frequent intake of calories, 6 times, then energy consumption will be improved, because whenpeople do not feel hungry then the fat will not be stored and will be burned instead. (Survival Systems do not feel the need foremergency backupfat because the intake is always good) According to me this is wrong! Survival is survival. Whatevernumber of meals you eat,whenever you eat, and as often as you eat, your bodywill still store fat for an emergency

People with a weekly pay day will still have the same savings as people who receive their pay on a monthly basis if they make the effort to save their money. Our bodies will keep storing fat for emergencies and do not care about the amount, the time or the frequency. The fat reserves will be used when the humans reallyneed it. Have you ever heard stories of people stranded at sea without food, and yet they lived?That and other events when food becomes scarce is when food reserves in the form of fat are used. It is in these types of events when human survival depends on the amount of fat in there is in reserve.

I ask you, what with the current state of your life in acitywhere food is everywhere and food intake is 6 times a day, where is the state of stress that causes your body to use up its reserves of fat? It isn’t there! In the mean time your body continues to save up fat for an emergency. Fasting on the other hand simulates the state of stress. From this we can draw the conclusion that eating 6 times a day will only make your bodystore fat continually whileanticipating the emergency where it will be needed.