Fasting’s bad reputation
Mike’s been following a Fast-5 schedule for a couple of years. He’s lost weight and his doctor tells him he’s in great shape and to keep up what he’s doing.…
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Weight Record Pages
Six-month (26 week) AC weight record pages are available for your convenience as a free download. Printing the page on paper is recommended for everyday use; progress notes can be kept…
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What’s Appetite Correction?
If you’re wondering what appetite correction is all about, please have a look at this video. If you’d like to learn more about appetite correction, or you’re interested in intermittent…
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Your Body is an AMAZING Machine
In my new book, AC: The Power of Appetite Correction, I emphasize how remarkably good the human body is at automatically taking care of many of the things it does.…
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Paging Dr. Weil
Dr. Weil, on your site’s weekly bulletin, you have a headline of “How To Gain Bad Belly Fat,” and report that “a new study suggests that skipping meals can add…
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Review of Fasting Now Available
The excellent review of fasting written by Valter Longo and Mark Mattson and published in February 2014 has passed its first birthday a while back, so it’s now available to the public…
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Keep Moving at Work
Articles dating back to the 90s disclose some of the difference between those who gain weight after overeating versus those who don’t. One of the big differences is how much…
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My new book “AC” is available on Amazon!
Ten years ago, I wrote The Fast-5 Diet and the Fast-5 Lifestyle, the first book to encourage a daily cycle of intermittent fasting (also known as time-restricted eating or time-restricted feeding) for…
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Thrifty Genes and Fat Loss
A recent article in Diabetes demonstrates that humans taking on similar amounts of calorie restriction wind up with different amounts of fat loss. I’m sure it’s no surprise to most…
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Did I Enrich Today?
Here’s a pop-press Huffington Post article about the effects of social and economic stress on health. It’s a reminder that a healthy diet goes far beyond food.
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All About Fast-5
In order to provide better interaction with everyone across multiple topics, I’m integrating conversations from all sites here. Whether you want to talk science, science fiction, Fast-5, D.I.E.T. or other…
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Medicine: the Monetization of Misfortune?
A dinner conversation with friends returned to a frequent-flyer topic: medicine. Few people have had a thoroughly happy experience with the medical establishment, and most have at least one horrible…
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5 Percenters’ Interview with Dr. Bert Herring
Kudos to Dennis Bird, the author of the 5Percenters blog, for discovering the simplicity of Fast-5 and for introducing it to his audience. During his interview with Dr. Bert Herring, their…
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Intermittent Fasting and Fast-5 on the Diane Rehm Show
My thanks and appreciation go to Diane Rehm and her staff for hosting a discussion on intermittent fasting today on WAMU and NPR. The biggest hurdle for people adapting to…
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The Cost of Not Eating Too Much
In a study by Yanovski et al of holiday weight gain, the typical American gained about 1.3 pounds (0.6 kg) per year, about half of it during the holiday season. The subjects…
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Phil’s Fast-5 Before-and-After
I was always overweight, but by the turn of the 21st century I had ballooned up to well over 400 pounds (my scale was a 300 pounder and after a…
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Jordan’s Fast-5 Before-and-After
I originally started Fast 5 back in 2009-10 and I was mainly doing it because I was extremely unhappy with the way I looked and felt and really wanted to…
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Linda’s Fast-5 Before-and-After
I contacted you, [Dr. Herring], one year ago and asked if Fast-5 was suitable for folks who needed to lose A LOT of weight. You replied that the maximum weight…
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Giving their “ol”: Sugar Alcohols & Erythritol
*** UPDATE 2023-02-28 *** A recent study found that long-term use of erythritol may double the risk of heart attack and stroke, which would mean sustained use is as big…
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Adapting “Cold Turkey”: Getting Through a Crunch Day
Many people start Fast-5 in a “cold turkey” approach, meaning that they pick a window and just start. Day 1 of this approach usually goes very smoothly. Day 2 is…
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Scales of Success
Sometimes it seems that diets are all about weight, when weight isn’t really what we’re concerned about. Would we be bothered to weigh double our ideal weight if it were…
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The Expanding Medical Bureaucracy
Until reimbursement depends on the patient's quality of life and not that of the physician, nurse, hospital administrator, marketer and advertiser, that sort of trust is lost to the profession.
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