carorees wrote:
They point out that the lack of a difference between the two groups in terms of glucose metabolism in normal weight men with normal glucose metabolism does not necessarily mean that fasting would not benefit people with impaired glucose metabolism of course and that it would be worth examining this.
I'd expect men of normal weight to have mechanisms to defend that normal weight against transient changes in food intake, and a change in REE could be one of these.
For those of us who are overweight, our problem is that our bodies also try to defend the abnormal weight. I think it's still unclear whether impaired glucose metabolism is the cause or the effect. I used to be certain it was the cause, but I'm a lot less certain about a lot of things now.
On a guess, 5:2 might be more effective than ADF for preventing downregulation of REE, simply because it gives the body less time to adapt to the caloric deficit.
And here's another interesting possibility: It might be better to randomly change the fast days than to lock into a schedule.
Edit: Is this drop in REE the elusive "starvation mode"?
Statistics: Posted by Ubizmo — 07 Mar 2013, 14:37