Fast every two days to fight obesity
Australian researchers have turned to crowdfunding to help bankroll a new technology to save the critically endangered swift parrot from extinction in the island state of Tasmania.
Scientists from the Australian National University (ANU) and the National Environmental Science Programme on Wednesday revealed that they were seeking donations from the public to help save the swift parrot, which is currently at risk of extinction due to predatory sugar gliders – a species of gliding possum introduced to Tasmania early last century, Xinhua reported.
In a media release, ANU conservation scientist Dejan Stojanovic said the number of swift parrots in Tasmania had been consistently declining as a result of being massacred by sugar gliders, which love to eat the small birds as well as eggs and chicks at night when the parrots sleep.
He said as it was hard to get conservation funding, the researchers were turning to crowdfunding to help bankroll a device which helps protect the parrots in their man-made nesting boxes – also funded by the public last year.
Are unhealthy eating habits and sedentary lifestyle taking a toll on your body weight? Then here’s a solution – one day of fasting after every two days may help to fight obesity and other metabolic disorders, suggests a recent study.
According to researchers, an intermittent fasting, up to 16 weeks, without otherwise having to count calories may help fight obesity and other metabolic disorders.
According to researchers, such fasting already shows benefits after only six weeks.
The findings, conducted by Kyoung-Han Kim and Yun Hye Kim, indicated that intermittent fasting in mice helped to kick-start the animals' metabolism and to burn fat by generating body heat. The research
Researchers turn to crowdfunding to help the critically endangered swift parrot from extinction in the island state of Tasmania
team was led by Hoon-Ki Sung of The Hospital for Sick Children in Ontario, Canada.
The research has shown that our unhealthy eating habits and sedentary lifestyles are playing a major role in the development of lifestyle-related metabolic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity.
They exposed the groups of mice to 16 weeks of intermittent fasting. The recurring regimen saw the animals being fed for two days, followed by one day without anything to eat.
Their calorie intake was not adjusted otherwise.