{"id":30383,"date":"2025-04-18T14:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T14:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/30383\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T14:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T14:03:31","slug":"cutting-out-food-group-just-1-day-a-week-could-be-as-effective-as-intermittent-fasting-for-fat-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/30383\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting out food group just 1 day a week could be as effective as intermittent fasting for fat burn"},"content":{"rendered":"

New research suggests that skipping carbs just one day a week could offer similar health benefits to intermittent fasting.<\/p>\n

A University of Surrey study<\/a> has found that low-carb days encourage the body to burn fat for energy, much like fasting diets do.<\/p>\n

This approach could improve metabolic health without the challenge of severe calorie restriction that many find difficult to maintain.<\/p>\n

The scientists recruited 12 adults aged 20 to 65, all considered overweight or obese.<\/p>\n

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Participants followed three different diets, each for 36 hours – one full day plus two nights’ sleep.<\/p>\n

They tried a normal diet, a low-carb diet with normal calories, and a low-carb diet with reduced calories.<\/p>\n

After each diet period, researchers measured how participants’ bodies responded.<\/p>\n

The researchers discovered that regardless of calorie intake, low-carb diets prompted participants’ bodies to burn fat for energy.<\/p>\n

This metabolic response was similar to what occurs during intermittent fasting.<\/p>\n

“What we’re interested in is not necessarily about weight loss, but the metabolic effect of this dietary intervention,” explained Dr Adam Collins, co-author of the study and Associate Professor of Nutrition at the University of Surrey.<\/p>\n

Dr Collins explained that the body is designed to use carbohydrates for energy after meals, then switch to burning fat between meals and overnight.<\/p>\n

However, when we eat too much and too frequently, our bodies rarely make this switch, resulting in “metabolic mismanagement”.<\/p>\n

This leads to fat accumulating around our waists, inside organs, and in blood vessels, contributing to health problems.<\/p>\n

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Periods of reduced carbohydrate intake help the body to start removing accumulated fat<\/p>\n

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Periods of intermittent fasting or reduced carb intake help the body “clear the decks” and start removing accumulated fat, according to Dr Collins.<\/p>\n

While some people follow low-carb diets permanently, this might impair their ability to process glucose long-term.<\/p>\n

Alternating between low-carb days and normal eating appears to be more sustainable, especially for those who enjoy pasta and bread.<\/p>\n

Dr Collins emphasised that moderation is key to a healthy diet.<\/p>\n

“No food is a sin,” he said. “Carbohydrates aren’t bad. Fat isn’t bad. It’s all about everything in moderation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New research suggests that skipping carbs just one day a week could offer similar health benefits to intermittent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4318],"tags":[372,105,388,12,4434,512,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-30383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-diet","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-lifestyle","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nutrition","13":"tag-sgg","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114359343833333613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}