It seems the article in the NY Times on Intermittent Fasting was timed perfectly. Intermittent Fasting is the new craze, and for a good reason! When you allow your organs to rest from the constant onslaught of food, they have a chance to use up the glucose stored in the liver and start to break down the fat that is stored in fat tissue. According to Mark P. Mattson, a neuroscientist at the National Institute on Aging and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, “It takes 10 to 12 hours to use up the calories in the liver before a metabolic shift occurs to using stored fat.”

It is recommended to go 16 hours without eating. He suggests,  “the easiest way to do this is to stop eating by 8 p.m., skip breakfast the next morning and then eat again at noon the next day.” (Caffeine-dependent people can have sugar- free black coffee or tea before lunch.) But don’t expect to see results immediately; it can take up to four weeks to notice an effect, he said.

Gas and Oil Production May Be Worse for the Environment than We Thought!

I read a disturbing article from the NY Times about an investigation they did on the monitoring of methane gas emissions into the atmosphere. It seems the investigation revealed vast quantities of methane being released from oil wells and other energy facilities instead of being captured. Just this past Saturday, a gas pipe leaked in Mississippi, causing more than 300 residents to be evacuated and 46 people sent to hospitals, according to state authorities. Pipelines are not the way of the future! We need to end our dependence on fossil fuels and put our energy into building and promoting alternative, renewable, energy sources.

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