{"id":33815,"date":"2011-04-10T15:43:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T15:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/a-day-without-food-may-help-maintain-a-heart-without-disease-80beats\/"},"modified":"2011-04-10T15:43:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T15:43:05","slug":"a-day-without-food-may-help-maintain-a-heart-without-disease-80beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/a-day-without-food-may-help-maintain-a-heart-without-disease-80beats.php","title":{"rendered":"A Day Without Food May Help Maintain a Heart Without Disease | 80beats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27693\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/91dbe_heart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" align=\"right\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">What&rsquo;s the News<\/strong>: Scientists found that periodic <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/heart-disease\/news\/20110405\/periodic-fasting-may-cut-risk-of-heart-disease-diabetes\">fasting may decrease the risk of coronary artery disease<\/a> and diabetes, and also causes significant changes in heart-disease risk factors like cholesterol, blood-sugar, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Triglyceride\">triglyceride<\/a> levels, which hadn&rsquo;t been linked to fasting before. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve shown it is not a chance finding. Fasting is not just an indicator for other healthy lifestyles,&rdquo; <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/?nid=960&amp;sid=14994155\">says lead researcher Benjamin Horne<\/a> of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intermountain_Medical_Center\">Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute<\/a>. &ldquo;It is actually the fasting that is working to reduce the risk of disease.&rdquo;<\/p><p><strong>How the Heck<\/strong>:<\/p><p> In the first recent study on fasting and heart disease, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/heart-disease\/news\/20110405\/periodic-fasting-may-cut-risk-of-heart-disease-diabetes?page=2\">the researchers surveyed people in Salt Lake City<\/a>, where a majority of citizens are Mormons and fast once a month for 24 hours. They discovered that the people who answered &ldquo;yes&rdquo; when questioned whether they abstain from food and drink for an extended time had a lower rate of coronary disease and diabetes.<br>In the second study, scientists monitored 230 people ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oDpGMlfkgfvr3t7hDmnrEIKEd1E\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/91dbe_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oDpGMlfkgfvr3t7hDmnrEIKEd1E\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/10908_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/10908_XC5LfEk_HyI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/10908_zuL6CetaHpA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&rsquo;s the News: Scientists found that periodic fasting may decrease the risk of coronary artery disease and diabetes, and also causes significant changes in heart-disease risk factors like cholesterol, blood-sugar, and triglyceride levels, which hadn&rsquo;t been linked to fasting before. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/a-day-without-food-may-help-maintain-a-heart-without-disease-80beats.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}