Trick your body and lose weight. Basic Principles of the Five-Day Fasting Mimicking Diet – Nutrition
The Fast Mimicking Diet (FMD) is popular among celebrities and fitness bloggers, Sports.kz reports with reference to Championat.com.
They claim that this diet not only helps you lose weight, but also gives you “lightness.”
The diet is an approach to nutrition based on cyclical caloric reduction and manipulation of the fasting and satiety phases. Its goal is to reproduce the metabolic and physiological effects of long-term fasting without the need to completely abstain from food.
Principles of the FMD diet
The FMD diet is a five-day fasting-mimicking eating plan. It was developed by Walter Longo, PhD, professor of gerontology and biological sciences at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California.
The point of the FMD diet is that once a month or less…