Possibly one of the most effective approaches for reversing your biological clock, enhancing your health and becoming much more radiant is to significantly reduce the quantity of food you eat.

One way to do this is through intermittent fasting.

The resulting pro-health gene expression initiated by greatly reducing your calorie intake is the only proven “anti-aging” method known and the simple reality is the more food you eat, the quicker illness, old age and death will come your way.

Most of us are slaves to the foods we eat continuously overburdening our digestive tracts with nutritionally devoid junk that eventually ends up taking us one step nearer to death with each bite taken.

We eat when we are happy, sad, bored, celebrating, socializing, lonely and maybe countless other reasons but most significantly we eat when we aren’t even hungry.

There is a powerful reason for this.

We have been programmed by highly effective food industry propaganda that eating is the answer to all of our problems when the simple truth is it might be the biggest cause of them!

Many of us never give our overworked digestion system a rest causing it to get blocked with putrefied waste material which eventually contaminates all the cells in our body resulting in disease and premature aging.

Healthy radiant beauty on the outside can only be achieved if you are clean on the inside and while internal cleanses are an excellent tool for achieving this, lasting results can only be accomplished if you decide to stop stuffing yourself with excessive food that your body doesn't need and cannot process efficiently.

The human body actually needs very little food to repair and preserve itself. A more appropriate statement might be that the body requires very little nutrition to repair and maintain itself.

There's a strong reason to eat less, much less, on the genetic level as well.

Consuming excess calories causes gene expression that accelerates aging while eating a reduced calorie diet will cause genes to express favorably for life extension and much better health.

This has been recognized since 1935 when the well-known study by McCay and Crowell demonstrated that rats fed a restricted calorie diet experienced much less age-related disease and lived considerably longer than their fatter more well fed friends.

Since that time a number of animal research has demonstrated that undereating while maintaining adequate nutrition has an extraordinary positive effect on wellness and longevity.

Rewind one hundred or so thousand years and you’ll find our ancestors hunting for and gathering their food frequently traveling lengthy distances(exercising) by day and eating just one meal in the evening. These people were powerful, quick, had razor-sharp senses and are believed to have been extremely intuitive and yet they frequently fasted for nearly 24 hours day after day.

Admittedly these folks didn’t live a long life however they probably died from severe climatic conditions or in the jaws of a saber-tooth tiger rather than from illness related to persistent bowel problems which causes many of the health problems that plague humankind today.

To propose someone could become much healthier, improve their vitality, develop better intuition and slow the aging process by eating only one meal a day is more often than not viewed as pure ludicrously in a culture that is constantly influenced by advertising and advertising disguised as news based on results of research funded by food companies who simply wish to sell you more of their product.

So I am advising you should eat only one meal each day?

What I am suggesting is that you begin thinking about your views on food and just how they developed.

Giving your overtaxed digestive system a break once in awhile will free up vital energy your body will use for other more essential functions like repairing and healing.

All spiritual leaders like Buddha and Jesus fasted and recommended it to their followers and while Jesus supposedly fasted for forty days, wonderful benefits can be achieved by fasting for 24 hours just one day a week.

Consume your regular diet however just one day a week drink only pure water for a twenty four hour period either from dinner to dinner the next day, from lunch to lunch the next day or whatever feels right for you.

Doing this just one day a week may help you slim down and appear years younger.

Caloric restriction or "undereating", after numerous animal studies has been proven to produce profound health benefits and prolong lifespan and fasting in this intermittent manner may be one of the better ways to experience these benefits.

Fasting one day a week may not be comparable to the reduced calorie diets given the animals in these studies but the point to take home here is that any amount of caloric reduction has the potential to produce positive results.

I fast for 24 hours every so often and amazingly on those days I think clearer and have more energy. For the last several months I have worked on greatly reducing my overall caloric consumption and have not lost any lean mass because of it.

I suggest you find out more about the numerous benefits of eating less, much less.

A brilliant guy named Brad Pilon has a developed a program called Eat Stop Eat that is based on what I've presented in this article. It presents a clear plan and offers plenty of documentation to support the claim that short intermittent fasting can do a world of good for your health. Check it out HERE.

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Michael Kahunka is a health researcher, author and creator of Kahunka Health and Fitness.

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