Intermittent fasting may reduce cancer risk
March 16, 2005 | Source: KurzweilAI
Healthy mice given only 5 percent fewer calories than mice allowed to eat freely experienced a significant reduction in cell proliferation in several tissues, an indicator for cancer risk, UC Berkeley researchers found.
The key was that the mice eating 5 percent fewer calories were fed intermittently, or three days a week.
Cutting just a few calories overall but feeding intermittently may be a more feasible eating pattern for some people to maintain than substantial reduction in calories, the researchers suggest.