Diet that mimics fasting may boost health

Periodically adopting a diet that mimics the effects of fasting may boost health in a wide variety of ways, new research shows.

In a new study, Valter Longo and his colleagues show that cycles of a four-day low-calorie diet that mimics fasting (FMD) cut visceral belly fat and elevated the number of progenitor and stem cells in several organs of old mice–including the brain, where it boosted neural regeneration and improved learning and memory.

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