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YPSILANTI For the 8th consecutive year, local nonprofit Dawn Farm has partnered with a group of University of Michigan nurses and anesthesiologists to host an event that allows people of all fitness levels to tackle the problem of addiction in our community.

The 8th Annual Ride for Recovery will be held on Sunday April 30th from 8:00am-2:00pm at Dawn Farm on Stony Creek Road in Ypsilanti. This family fitness event will be filled with your choice of one of four bike rides ranging from a simple 10k to a whopping 50 miles. Guests who are not bicycle enthusiasts also have the option of running or walking a 5k/10k. The event will culminate in a Recovery Celebration Lunch that will celebrate our local food community featuring donations from local businesses as well as small scale local farmers.

In addition to raising critical support for Dawn Farms treatment programs, The Ride for Recovery serves as a true celebration of recovery from addiction through promoting a healthy lifestyle of exercise, connecting with the community, and great food.

Dawn Farm is a local nonprofit that assists addicts and alcoholics in achieving long-term recovery. All proceeds from this event contribute to Dawn Farms scholarship fund for clients who cannot afford the treatment they need.

The registration fee of $35 ($25 if registered by the end of the day Saturday, April 1st) will contribute to the care of an addict seeking help and hope at Dawn Farm. Participants have the option of creating a fundraising page as well, where family and friends can donate to support your participation in The Ride.

The top 10 fundraisers will receive some special prizes.

The support from University of Michigan health care workers comes from Team MANA, a bicycling group that aims to raise awareness of local charity events while promoting a healthy lifestyle for its members. Team MANA has been instrumental to the Ride for Recovery from its inception.

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Two local nonprofits have joined forces to meet one huge unmet need in our community.

The National Movement Alliance teamed up with the YMCA of Coastal Georgia at Habersham Street to create a new program called Move On! Music. Rhythm. Movement. The program is designed to help people with movement disorders or disabilities have a variety of exercise choices. NMA and YMCA launched Move On! in early February as a pilot and plan to begin the full program at the beginning of April.

NMA executive director Sarah Bernzott says Move On! at the YMCA is modeled after the current Get Excited and Move program that takes place at the Anderson/Cohen weightlifting center.

About a year ago, I went to Michael Cohen at Anderson/Cohen weightlifting and I asked him to design a program for people with Parkinsons and other movement disorders, Bernzott says. And he built an exercise program for me that is absolutely phenomenal.

Expanding the options

Bernzott is also a leader for the Parkinsons support group here in Savannah and has experienced firsthand the issues with finding an exercise program that isnt physical therapy.

The focus of Move On! is overall wellness and getting everyone moving. When you go to the doctor, the first thing the doctor will tell you is you need to exercise but your choices are limited.

The program at Anderson/Cohen has just exploded. Its gone from 23 to 250 people. And we started looking at things we can do to expand that program so that we are meeting everyones needs. Because not everyone wants to go to a gym and exercise.

Bernzott says there is a movement program for Parkinsons Disease called Dance for PD, so she thought about bringing a version of that program to Savannah. She met with Dede Roberts, resource director of Healthy Living at YMCA on Habersham Street, and the pair decided to create a program designed for anyone with movement disorders.

Roberts says they approached yoga instructors Pat Alley and Elizabeth Newkirk, who have danced on and off Broadway and have been yoga instructors in the Savannah area for many years, to create a program. Roberts says both instructors are dancers. Alley has completed her PD training and Newkirk brings 500 hours in yoga training, as well.

Bernzott says the instructors have training so they can modify their classes for the disorders they are working with to provide a rigorous workout to everyone participating.

So, for example, if I cant get out of my wheelchair and I need to move in my wheelchair, then they will modify what they are doing for that, she says. If Im in a walker and I can lift one hand at a time, then they modify for that. If Im completely ambulatory, then I can do other things.

Movement through music

What we are doing differently than what they are doing at Michael Cohens gym where they are in an exercise program doing boxing and lifting weights is that our program is movement through music and rhythm, Roberts explains. Its fluidity of movement and balance and core and posture and cognition. Its just going to be fabulous.

With the dance part of it, a lot of the participants that are coming in with a movement disability will come with a caretaker, which typically can be a spouse.

Another issue some caretakers may have with exercising with their partner is providing safety, and Bernzott says this environment allows for that extra layer of safety.

Safety is paramount in our programs, she says. That above anything else. We want to make sure they feel safe and secure. If they feel safe, they will take risks they wouldnt normally take.

And Roberts says with that safe environment, the confidence will allow them to go to the next step.

And thats what we want, Bernzott says. The entire focus on the program we have been building is that they recognize what they are capable of doing as opposed to what they feel they have lost. Often people with chronic illnesses feel they have lost so much, they are no longer the person they once were. And what weve seen is this tremendous growth where they no longer care about what theyve lost. They are all about where they are at now and there is so much self-esteem.

We have people who literally came into our class at the gym with their head down and wouldnt talk and now they are saying, can I be an advocate for you? They are not ashamed of themselves or their illness any more. Thats what we are shooting for with the program.

Connecting couples

Roberts adds that another exciting part of the program is offering couples a new way to connect.

With that spouse, we have found that over time, theyve lost that relationship of being man and wife because now that other spouse has become the caretaker So, we are hoping that by bringing them in together, this program reunites them in a more marital or relational way.

Roberts tells a story about a recent encounter with a husband and wife who used to dance together.

They lit up when I told them about the dance part of the program. They said, we used to dance together back in the day and we cant wait to do it again. She admitted that she had become that caregiver and he was looking at her in such adoration You could just see a light spark in both of them just talking about the program.

And both say the social aspect of being part of a group is also healing.

It works on so many things at one time, Bernzott says. Youre working on physical health, mental health, social health, confidence. The worst thing they can do is be isolated. Isolation is devastating for anyone, much less someone who has a chronic illness.

The depression that comes makes it so they never get better; they only continue to decline. And thats where this partnership becomes really valuable, because we both have the same goal: to get people out and get people moving and get them excited about the life they get to live.

Seeing results

Roberts says seeing is believing when it comes to the new Move On! program.

For me, going to see the program for the first time at Michael Cohens gym, I watched people shuffle in. And then youd see them start engaging By the time the class is over, its like they are high-fiving each other and ready to dance on out. Its such a difference in what you see in them mentally, and the mental wellness is healing to the physical.

As for the alternative to a program like this, Bernzott says the other option is physical therapy, but her colleague Edward DeVita, director of marketing and public relations for GEM, says this program is for people who arent getting what they need from therapy. He adds that when he sees the program in action, he cannot tell the difference between the caregiver and the patient.

The exciting thing about this is the caregiver aspect. I cant stress that enough, he says. You have a husband and wife and they are doing the same exercises. So, in that situation, they are no longer caregiver and patient They are participating together.

They are rekindling an aspect of their relationship that they have lost. They do the same workout. Their identity is changed a bit to the point that they are excited.

And there is that sense of community because they are all there for a different ailment. You wouldnt be able to tell who was the caregiver and who was the patient, but I dont think patient is the right word. Its therapy without being therapeutic. So, it becomes more social and thats how it leads to word of mouth.

Once you see it, you believe it They are treated like athletes, not patients. If I am sick and I dont want to go to the doctor, Im not going to go because I dont want to go to therapy. But if I want to go see my friends who participate in an exercise program, then its a different response and I would say, Lets go.

Bernzott says the focus is not to treat participants as if they are ill, but to treat them just like they would anyone in the class.

They dont want to be coddled or babied. They want to be independent, just like anybody else would They are taking control of their lives.

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HALEY SMITH lost an incredible 8st by making small changes to her diet.

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In the world of Instagram, there are many people who are famous for a multitude of reasons.

From the travel bloggers to the fashion bloggers, Instagram famous models and body positive warriors there is one sub-set who garners more of a cult fan base than the others.

These are the weight loss success stories.

People, usually women, who have lost large amounts of weight and regularly post before and after or progress photos gather thousands of followers who follow them for inspiration and motivation.

One of these women, Haley Smith, has lost an incredible 7.8st in a year and a half and she boasts an impressive 92.8k Instagram following.

This week US woman Haley spoke to Womens Health about her top weight loss tips:

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High-protein, low-carbohydrate diets are all the rage right now and for good reason. Protein is an important component of every cell in the body. Hair and nails are mostly made of protein and your body uses protein to build and repair tissues.

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1. Make small changes to your diet

Now, when I go on vacations, I don't have to sit things out because I feel too uncomfortable.

Haley said in the beginning she only made small changes to her diet.

Two of my biggest problems with food were eating late in the day and eating out all the time. So those were the first habits I focused on breaking. I decided that I would only eat out twice a week and stop eating after 8 p.m.something I still stick to today!

Now, I try to stick to balancing my food groups, eating out as little as I can, and just making conscious, healthy choices about what I eat.

A typical day for me starts with a protein shake for breakfast, grilled chicken with kale for lunch, and something similar for dinner, like a pork chop with broccoli.

However, Haley added that its all about balance and that shes practically addicted to chips.

2. Get moving

Haley said her exercise journey began by joining the Couch to 5k app so she could start to get into running.

After a while, she decided to join the gym and now trains around six days a week.

While this may not be for everyone, make sure you incorporate at least three half-hour sessions of exercise into each week.

3. Dont give up

Haley said her Instagram followers have been a big part of her motivation.

Im currently finishing up a project I call my "Year of Runs" where I ran one 5K every monthI even decided to cap it off by hosting my own virtual 5K with them!

There were so many times I wanted to call the challenge off, but I knew letting them down would cause me to let myself down.

My followers are so supportive and encouraging, and that community really helps keep my healthy lifestyle at the front of my mind every day.

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4. Reap the benefits

Haley said her confidence levels have skyrocketed since she lost weight.

Now, when I go on vacations, I don't have to sit things out because I feel too uncomfortable or literally can't do something. I feel so much more in-control of my life.

5. Take it slow

Haley said her top tip would be to start small and take it slow.

Hard and fast diets or workout routines are too difficult to stick to for any extended period of time.

Because this is a lifestyle change rather than a quick fix, you have to be able to make those small, habit-breaking changes little by little.

Take it one day at a time.

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Can Avoiding Acidic Foods Help You Lose Weight? Women's Health The Alkaline Diet, or so-called pee strip diet, is having a moment. According to the New York Post, celebs like Kelly Ripa and Jennifer Aniston are fans of the plan, which requires you to monitor your pH levels by peeing on a strip of paper that tests ...

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Well, how is everyone doing on obtaining their spring and fitness goals? I would dare to guess if you have established a plan, and are taking action, you are pleased with your progress thus far.

Well, how is everyone doing on obtaining their spring and fitness goals? I would dare to guess if you have established a plan, and are taking action, you are pleased with your progress thus far.

No matter how good or bad youre doing right now, I want to remind you that you can attain any health and fitness goal you have set for yourself! I challenge you to make a commitment today, because the warmer weather is not far away! All you have to do is make the decision, get started, and stay consistent with your health and weight maintenance program.

Weight maintenance is just like weight loss. They both fundamentally consist of eating healthy meals, exercising regularly, rest, proper hydration, proper supplementation to fill in all nutritional gaps, and making a long-term commitment. I truly believe that progressive and permanent lifestyle changes are the key to successful weight loss and maintenance. Anyone can do this when they put their minds to it!

You just have to find your motivation. Is it your health, your age, your children? Maybe you want to be more active enjoying your family this Spring and Summer? What has motivated you in the past to be successful in this area? No matter what drives you, please make sure to also attach a long term commitment to your health and well being. Focusing on health rather than appearance, or the quick temporary fix is a better approach in terms of long-range success, especially if you pay attention to the many ways you feel better as you drop pounds, increase flexibility, gain strength, and reduce risk factors for poor health. Its all about giving attention to positive lifestyle changes rather than the end result. Losing even 5 to10 percent of your bodyweight can promote big health rewards like lower blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar levels, and risk of joint problems. Additional benefits like higher self-esteem, more energy, less aches and pains may also be realized.

Please remember that once youve started your program, you cannot stop your efforts. Weight maintenance requires daily exercise, proper nutrition, your long term commitment, and remaining aggressive. Maintaining moderately intense activities like fast walking or biking on most days of the week for 30 to 60 minutes, and two or three days of resistance training with weights, is a great way to keep your edge. Of course always check with your doctor before beginning any physical fitness program.

I challenge you to enjoy healthy meals and snacks as well as find a credible vitamin program. Those things alone will make a major difference in your success. Focus on lower calorie and healthier foods, such as fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Keep saturated fat low and limit sweets and alcohol. Choose a variety of all food groups throughout your day. Remember the main thing is that you choose foods that promote weight maintenance and good health more often than you choose foods that dont.

Know and avoid food traps that cause you to overeat. It may be a good idea to write down what you eat, how much you eat, when you eat, how youre feeling, and how hungry you are. Overtime you may start to see some patterns. Once you recognize these triggers, you can plan ahead and develop a strategy on how to best handle them. This could be a very powerful tool in helping you stay in control of your eating behaviors.

Monitor your weight regularly. Weigh yourself at least once a week to find out if your efforts are working, or to detect small weight gains before they become larger. Nothing more, nothing less. You just need to know!

Once again, be consistent. It is very important to remember that taking care of yourself must be a priority for the rest of your life. It doesnt become less important on vacation or the weekend. You may have good days or bad days, but you must never let yourself be completely off of your program.

Finally create a support network of friends, family, and or a personal trainer to keep you motivated. Surrounding yourself with people also striving to improve their health can make a major difference in your success or failure.

Hopefully these tips will help you stay on your program, attain your spring and summer goals, lose the weight, and keep it off forever. Achieving and staying at a healthy weight does take planning and effort, but like anything else important, is well worth your time.

Until next week please make it a healthy and nutritious day! For more information on weight loss and healthy nutrition call Reggie at (405) 613-0237, or stop by Reggies Personal Training and Nutrition, 104 E. Main, Shawnee, email reggiesnutrition@hotmail.com, or follow Reggie on Facebook at reggies personal training and nutrition. Ask about the 24 day challenge that jumpstarts weight loss, improves health, tones you up, and increases your active energy!

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Kevin Creekman tattooed over his weight loss scars and learned to accept his body in the process Metro They motivayed each other to keep going, and slowly, through a low carb diet and cardio, Kevin began to lose weight. 'I lost about 80 kilos in one ... He began to cover his scars with custom tattoos, and quickly fell in love with body art. What started ...

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TUSCALOOSA DaShawn Hand arrived at Alabama in 2014 as the nations No. 1 overall recruit according to Rivals.com.

But as one of a nations-leading five five-star signees in the Crimson Tides recruiting class that year, the 6-foot-4 Hand was quickly humbled, settling in as just another elite recruit who had to earn his place.

Now, after three years of serving as a key reserve along Alabamas loaded defensive front sitting behind future NFL stars Jonathan Allen, Jarren Reed, Ashawn Robinson and Dalvin Tomlinson Hand enters his senior year as the frontrunner to finally start.

It was a humbling experience, but Im glad I went through it, Hand said Thursday. God has no mistakes in a mans life, so I was just riding the wave. I just kept chopping at the wood, and nows my time.

While serving as in a mostly backup capacity in his first three seasons, Hand combined for 44 total tackles, 12 tackles for loss and seven sacks.

But with all expectations that Hand will occupy one of the two open starting spots at defensive end, the 282-pound senior is ready to finally break out in his final season at the Capstone.

Its a very important season for me, just because I have to showcase my athleticism, Hand said. Ive been waiting. Ive been working. So, Im just ready to showcase.

Despite having to essentially wait his turn, the former No. 1 overall player says he never once considered transferring.

Not at all. Its all a mindset. Im a competitor, so I just like to compete, Hand said. When it was my time to go, I just had to suit up and go. So, just like now, its my time to showcase what I can do as a starter, so thats what I plan on doing.

Over the first two weeks of Alabamas spring practice, Hand has consistently seen reps with the first-team unit, beside junior defensive tackle DaRon Payne and sophomore end Raekwon Davis. Among the others looking to crack into the defensive lineman rotation include redshirt freshman Quinnen Williams, junior college transfer Isaiah Buggs and senior Jamar King.

*Hentges eager to step up

With O.J. Howard likely to be taken in the first half of the first round of next months NFL Draft, Alabamas tight end position will look a little different in 2017.

But, after watching and learning behind Howard the last two years, rising junior Hale Hentges is ready to step up and carry on the Crimson Tides recent tradition of play-making tight ends.

Weve had a lot of great role models along my two years here, you know like OJ Howard and Brandon Greene, who have taught me so knowledge and instilled a lot of confidence in me, Hentges said Thursday. So Im just kind hoping I can take what they taught me and use that to kind of expand to a larger role on the field and use that knowledge to help the younger guys out too.

Hentges and rising sophomore Miller Forristall are the only tight ends with any significant playing time, serving mostly as blockers last season. Appearing in all 15 games last season, Forristall finished with just five receptions for 73 yards and Hentges added three catches for 10 yards.

This season, though, each are likely to become more of an option in the offense, a change both welcome with open arms.

As you get in and you grow and you develop and you gain muscle, you lose weight, you get faster or whatever, your position changes, Hentges said. I saw me, I put on a good bit of weight and now Im playing that Y position. Miller is also putting on a good bit of weight right now cause thats something we all have to do to in order block these freaks that we block every day.

Forristall and Hentges arent alone, with 6-5 freshman early enrollee Major Tennison, 6-8 sophomore Cam Stewart and 6-4 redshirt freshman Irv Smith Jr. also eager to contribute in 2017.

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You probably first came across it with a pale-looking colleague slumped over their office desk. Or with The Fast Diet author Michael Mosely speaking effusively about it on television. Fasting, theyd have told you, is a great way to lose weight. It makes sense: eat fewer calories a couple of days a week, and dont overeat on the others, and youll slim down. Whats less clear is the assumption that fasting from time to time can bring other benefits such as avoiding disease, keeping your brain sharp and even letting you live longer. With all this for the price of just a sprinkle of willpower though, surely its all too good to be true?

The answer is not straightforward. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the evidence is strongest with type 2 diabetes a disease often caused by overeating. The disease means that a person can no longer control their blood sugar levels. Once diagnosed they are left staring down the barrel of a lifetime on medication, unless, think researchers at Newcastle University, they begin to fast.

Theyve tested an extreme low-calorie diet a hunger-panging 600 calories a day for eight weeks in 11 people with type 2 diabetes: all were disease-free by the end of the fast; seven were still disease-free three months on. Later studies suggest that the sooner people fast, the better their chances of reversing their disease. Roy Taylor, who leads the group, thinks that fasting is beneficial because it gets rid of dangerous fat in and around your organs, including two that are important in sugar control the pancreas and the liver.

When an otherwise healthy persons blood sugars get too high, their pancreas makes a hormone called insulin that tells the liver to remove the sugar and store it safely. If you have fat around these organs it clogs up the way they work and your body cant control its blood sugars, says Taylor. After about 12 hours of fasting, he says, the body uses up all the glycogen in the liver, its go-to source of energy, and starts to dip into its fat deposits. The first type of fat to go is that dangerous fat around the organs, freeing them up to do their job properly. He stresses that people with diabetes should not fast without consulting their doctor a combination of insulin drugsandfasting can be lethal.

Taylor and his colleagues are now testing their fasting diet in around 300 people with type 2 diabetes. The results of that study will give a better idea of how beneficial the diet can be. The question is how much of the effect is down to fasting and how much is down to just the weight loss? Its almost certain that other forms of dieting will do the same, says Taylor. But this low-calorie diet is one that I was confident would let people lose the roughly two and a half stone, or a sixth of their body weight, that we werelooking for.

There is, though, reason to believe that fasting might have benefits over and above weight loss. Its down to what happens to all living organisms when they dont have food they begin to eat themselves. Gruesome, maybe, but its beneficial: it lets the body recycle energy and do some housekeeping the first cells to go are the faulty ones.

Valter Longo is a scientist at the University of Southern California who believes that, because of this process, periodic fasting can help people stay healthy. Faulty immune cells, for instance, could be pruned back so that when a person starts to feed again, new cells are spawned from only the strongest and the fittest.

In experiments in mouse models of multiple sclerosis, a disease in which rogue immune cells erroneously attack a persons nerve cells, hes seen that periodic, low-calorie fasting can slow down the destruction of cells and even lead to some regeneration. His preliminary work in people with the disease suggests it could improve their quality of life.

The potential reaches further. Fasting-mimicking diets can help people with cancer undergoing radiation chemotherapy, presumably by promoting the growth of healthy cells and restricting the growth of cancerous ones. Restricting the amount a mouse eats by about 30-40% can extend its lifespan by a third.

This year Longo showed that a fasting-mimicking diet could help mice with diabetes regain blood sugar control, not only those with type 2 but also those with type 1 diabetes, caused not by overeating but by a faulty immune system. The benefits, he says, were down to a reprogramming of beta cells, a type of cell in the pancreas that makes insulin. He also starved cells taken from people with type 1 diabetes and saw a similar reprogramming.

Experiments in mice suggest that fasting could slow the onset of brain diseases such Alzheimers and Parkinsons disease

These results are surprising and completely new territory, warns Gordon Weir, a diabetes researcher at Harvard Medical School. Id be cautious about assuming that fasting will help people with type 1 diabetes until the mouse studies are replicated in other laboratories and it has gone on to be shown to work in human beings, not just in human cells.

Longo, too, is wary of giving false hope but is bullish about the potential of fasting. In research over 25 years weve seen it in E coli bacteria, in yeast, in human cells, and in mice, he says. The foundations are so deep that its as old as life itself, but we have to respect the complexity a yeast is a yeast, a mouse is a mouse, and a person is a person.

The difficulty in transferring a theory from mouse to man is that people live much longer than mice. At middle age we are much farther from when our stem cells, the type of cells that make other cells, are most active, so our ability to generate new cells might not be as strong.

We dont have conclusive data that any of this works in humans, Longo says, but we do have some promising data. Hes referring to a study of 100 generally healthy people given a fasting-mimicking diet low in calories, sugars and protein but high in unsaturated fats. Despite only a minor reduction in weight loss, he says, risk factors for ageing, diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack and stroke were all improved. Hes planning a bigger trial in 250 people to confirm these findings and to figure out which benefits are the result purely of the act of fasting and not just the result of weight loss.

Other tests will take a little longer. Whether fasting will ever make us live longer, given the time needed to prove it, will be for only Dracula and Dorian Gray to know. What could be more compelling is the idea that fasting can keep us in better mental shape.

When the body metabolises its fat deposits during fasting, says Mark Mattson, a neuroscientist at the US National Institute on Ageing and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, it produces acids called ketones, a source of food for brain cells. Ketones also trigger the production of a chemical called brain-derived neurotrophic factor, which encourages the brain to make newconnections.

Its not an entirely new concept; in fact, the ancient Romans stumbled across it. Roman doctors found that by locking epileptics in a room with no food for a few days they could cure them of their disease. They thought they were causing demons to go away but really these peoples ketones were increasing and suppressing their seizures, says Mattson. Today, ketogenic diets that increase ketones by mimicking fasting are increasingly prescribed to people with epilepsy to help them control their seizures.

Mattsons experiments in mice suggest that fasting could slow the onset of brain diseases such Alzheimers and Parkinsons disease. Weve also got evidence in mice that fasting reduces anxiety and depression, he says.

So far so good, but mouse does not equal man. The way you test anxiety or depression in a mouse is by chucking it into a beaker of water or dangling it by its tail. While we can all empathise with how that mouse might feel, the relevance of these studies to us with our more complicated lives and more complicated brains remains to be seen. Still, these are the same tests drug companies use to find promising antidepressants, so there might be something in it.

That fasting might have a beneficial effect on our brain makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. If our caveman ancestors hadnt eaten for a few days it would make sense for them to do something about it. This ketone signal tells the brain hey, brain, you better figure out how to get some food because if you dont theres going to be a problem soon, says Mattson. Now were eating three meals a day plus snacks so were never going to raise our ketones. If we fast from time to time, maybe we can take advantage of this evolutionary adaptation to help us in modern life.

Like most people, if Im going to skip a sandwich to help my inner caveman, I want him to be as pumped up and raring to go as Rocky at the end of a training montage. The problem is that nobody knows exactly how youd do that.

Simply too few studies have been done to know the long-term effects in people, says Susan Jebb, a nutrition scientist at the University of Oxford. Theres clearly something about not putting food in your system thats beneficial, especially for diabetes, but how close to fasting do we need to get? Is it the 5:2 diet or is it long periods of a low-calorie intake? Do we need to eat only 600 calories or can we get away with 1,200?

One reason for the paucity of studies is the lack of money to be made. With no drugs to sell, drug companies are not testing it. Nobody is suggesting they are sitting on data or getting skinny professors whacked, its just that its not their responsibility. Pharmaceutical companies are there to make useful drugs and to turn a profit, says Taylor. Its as simple as that.

In lieu of evidence that periodic fasting is beneficial, we should consider the potential harms which are few for overweight people. People with medical conditions, especially diabetes, should consult their doctor first. People should not do water-only fasts, which cause your body to start breaking down its own proteins. Messaging needs to be careful not to condone eating disorders such asanorexia.

With so much unknown about the relationship between fasting and health, Jebb urges that we dont lose sight of the basics. We know that if youre overweight, losing weight will reduce your risk of disease, she says. For many people an intermittent fasting diet will help them lose weight, for others eating a few less biscuits every day will be better. The trick is to find the diet that works for you and go for it.

Fast habit, free A no-nonsense stopwatch app. Tell it how many hours you want to fast for then press a button to start. It tracks your fasting over time and, helpfully, lets you edit your record in case you forget to log a fast.

Zero Fasting Tracker, free Zero has two predefined fasting plans: 5:2 and another one based on work done by US researchers that suggests fasting has added benefits if done at night. It uses your phones location to remind you when the sun will set. You can download your data to a spreadsheet and geek out over long-term performance analyses.

5:2 Diet TrackMyFast, 99p Despite having 5:2 its title, this app has other plans including alternate day fasts and the frankly weirdly named Johnson Up Day Down Day Diet. The usual weight and fasting tracking functions are supplemented with recipe ideas, which you can contribute to and share with otherusers.

5:2 Diet Complete Meal Planner, 1.99 This app is just a collection of recipes within different calorie brackets. Useful, but its tough to justify the price given that lots of recipes are available for free online. Warning: the recipes look incredible but when you make them they come out tiny.

MyFitness Pal Calorie Counter, free Not a fasting tracker per se but contains a massive database of foods more than 4m can be scanned by barcode to help you manage your calorie intake.

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Another day, another effort to throw water on the notion that Colin Kaepernick is being blackballed by the NFL.

Earlier this week, a report emerged that Kaepernick wants $9 million or $10 million per year plus a chance to compete for the starting job. The only problem with that report is that no one knows what Kaepernick wants because no one has expressed sufficient interest in him to even get to the point of talking terms.

Now comes another report that tries to explain the crickets when it comes to Kaepernick. Via Matt Maiocco of CSN Bay Area, teams are concerned about his commitment to football and his vegan diet.

Although we dont question whether one or more people from one or more teams have expressed that viewpoint to Maiocco, we do wonder aboutthe veracity of the claim. If teams have questions about Kaepernicks attraction to football and/or his aversion to animal products, they can ask him. Given that no one has shown any interest in Kaepernick, chances are those discussions havent happened.

So as the NFLs teams continue to repeatedlypress the button onthe Reasons For Kaepernicks Unemployment generator in the hopes of the final outcome being something other than Owners Dont Like His Political Views, the effort to pin his status on something other than the obvious serves only to make the obvious even more obvious. Obviously.

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At Pho Tan Hoa in San Francisco. Photo: Sheila McLaughlin

In the coming months, Rachel Khong has not one but two books hitting stores first, on April 4, All About Eggs, a collaboration with the editors of Lucky Peach (where she worked as the managing and then executive editor for five years); and then, in July, Goodbye, Vitamin, her first novel. She spent the past week, in her home in San Francisco, cooking a Turkish poached-egg dish called ilbir, and eating several servings of chicken katsu and all kinds of pho (even egg-drop soup made with leftover pho broth). Read all about it in this weeks Grub Street Diet.

Thursday, March 23Thursday starts with me running to my car in my pajamas because I forgot it was street-cleaning day. Im hoping for a miracle. No miracles today, only heartbreak. I owe the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency $71 and am sad.

Last night, I posted to my @all_about_eggs Instagram account a picture of beautiful, fluffy scrambled eggs, with the caption, Dreaming of breakfast. (At one point, while working on the book, I started an all-eggs Instagram account, and now its basically my job.) But I do not eat scrambled eggs for breakfast. Instead, I have a roasted Japanese sweet potato the kind with purple skin and yellow flesh, like the emoji with butter and flaky salt. I eat it, skin and all. To be clear, I eat these sweet potatoes because I love them, but also because Im trying to get out of the house to start writing ASAP. Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work is something Flaubert said. Sometimes, its good to think about that while youre feeling undignified, scarfing down a sweet potato.

At Charlies Cafe, my office for the morning, I drink a mug of Obama blend, a bean mix of one-third Kenya, one-third Indonesia, and one-third Kona. I make pitiful progress on my new long thing (a novel I cant jinx yet by calling a novel) because its hard not to think about my parking ticket or self-worth.

Lunch is at Rintaro, a Japanese izakaya that recently started serving lunch. I get a hojicha. I try my friend Cassandras melon creamy soda, a drink thats crazy green and tastes compellingly like candy. We order two teishoku lunches to share: A tuna don with shredded egg that comes with freshly grated wasabi on a shiso leaf; and their pork katsu, which I always get because its out-of-control good layers of pork, breaded and fried, and topped with black-hatch miso sauce, alongside a mound of thinly sliced cabbage and watermelon radish. The side dishes are delightful: miso soup with hen-of-the-woods mushrooms; green onion and vegetably stalks; and a Tokyo turnip-wedge koji pickle; crab and cucumber sunomono; and an innocent little fried smelt thats the perfect bite.

At home, more work, and its accompanying snacks: first, two tangerines. Then, a couple hours later, Castelvetrano olives and prosciutto draped directly into my mouth. The olives and prosciutto are from Luccas Ravioli, an old-timey Italian grocery store in my neighborhood that I particularly love. They sell housemade ravioli, yes, but also fancy tuna and not-fancy wine, obscure pasta shapes, and all manner of cured meat your heart could desire.

My friend Sandra is having a dress pop-up on the other side of town. Shes come from Nairobi, so the least I can do is travel to Presidio Heights. I have a glass of wine there, and ooh and aah over everyone trying out dresses. I cant buy any because I already own three, including one with eggs on it that Im planning to wear on my book tour next week. Sandra explains that theres a feminist message to my dress: There are the eggs and hens, but also roosters, which are decapitated. I love this dress.

Back at home, I drape more prosciutto into my mouth while prepping leftover chicken pho. Yesterday, I made the Classic Chicken Pho recipe from Andrea Nguyens new pho cookbook, aptly titled The Pho Cookbook. The recipe says its eight servings of pho, but it looks like it will be four servings for me. Humans are 60 percent water. Im probably 50 percent pho.

Friday, March 24 I wake up beside a bodylike mound of books. Theyve replaced my roommate, Eli, who left me for New York on Monday, to work on season two of the podcast Homecoming. (Tony Danza drinks Metamucil, and I endorse Homecoming from Gimlet Media.) Its a wonderful show! Eli and I just got married at City Hall, so I still feel weird about calling him my husband. My training wheels are spouse. The judge said, I now pronounce you spouses. Anyway, thats a disclaimer for why I will be the way I will be this week. Not getting a separate bowl for my olive pits, et cetera. Just throw your pits in the same bowl where your olives are hanging out, and save a dish!

Its raining, which is enough to make me want to stay home this morning. I brew some coffee, and toast a fat slice of Tartine country loaf. I cook a half-recipe of ilbir, a Turkish egg dish the writer Laura Goodman turned me onto, which is now in my regular breakfast rotation. The recipe is in All About Eggs (page 102), so you can make it, too! Ill tell you how to do it anyway: Basically, you pound a tiny clove of garlic in a mortar with some salt, then mix yogurt into that. Poach two eggs (I do it the Jacques Ppin way). Melt a couple tablespoons of butter with a few shakes of paprika and a pinch of chili flakes. Put the yogurt in a plate, slide the eggs on, drizzle with the hot chili-butter, and garnish with mint leaves, if you have them. On my egg Instagram, I keep using the hashtag #cilbir like its going to catch on. Maybe this is how it happens via Grub Street. The bread is important for sopping up the yogurt mingled with yolk mingled with butter. Its such a good breakfast! It fuels a solid morning of writing. Then the UPS guy comes while Im in a phone meeting. Its boxes of finished copies of All About Eggs, and Im so happy. Eggstatic even.

I have some chicken-pho broth left, so I make a quick egg-drop soup, loosely based on the stracciatella recipe in All About Eggs: Italian egg-drop soup with spinach and cheese except with thinly sliced Chinese broccoli instead of spinach, and chicken instead of cheese. It surprises me by being really good. Pho-broth egg-drop soup! You heard it here first, folks. I refrigerate the rest because I have to run out for a meeting at Sightglass Coffee. There, I have some of what they have already brewed: something delicious from Colombia.

Old friends from college are coming over for dinner. I drink some also-old Zinfandel (old vine and old because I opened it Monday!) while cooking a roughly Marcella Hazanesque chicken cacciatore with capers and olives. I serve it with rice, alongside a green-leaf lettuce and arugula salad with grana padano that was on sale at Luccas, and lemony roasted broccoli. Dessert is a blood-orange cake thats a Paul Bertolli recipe from Cooking by Hand, a perfect cookbook. The recipe intrigued me because its called bitter orange cake, and involves blending whole blood oranges peel, pith, and all. Just how bitter, Paul Bertolli? I mutter to myself while baking it, all alone at home. Each slice gets served with a compote made of orange peel, sugar, and segments of blood orange all the syrupy stuff soaks lusciously in. It seems bonkers, but the cake is edible! And not only edible, but a hit! As it turns out, everyone can have this superpower to eat whole oranges disguised as delicious cake.

Over the course of dinner, we somehow get onto the topic of mukbang, the YouTube videos of Korean women eating alone. I guess the idea is, you watch these videos when youre eating alone, so you feel less alone. After everyone leaves, I watch a few: riveted, aghast, then riveted again.

Saturday, March 25 Breakfast is Sightglass coffee from Rwanda, which is acidic and perfect with leftover cake and compote nuked for 45 seconds in the microwave. The cake might be even better today. Then I head to the Alemany farmers market, my favorite farmers market in the city because its huge and festive and glorious. I try slices of a few different kinds of grapefruits and oranges. Honestly, today Im here for the butt-shaped kiwis, which I buy from this one farm that seems to only grow kiwis not all of them butt-shaped. I seek those out.

For lunch, Im meeting my friend Vicki at Souvla, a Greek spot that does good souvlaki and these fries soaked in chicken fat that I totally forget to order. We split a pork gyro and a lamb gyro cut them right down their centers with butter knives a foolhardy but ultimately prudent decision. The pitas are fluffy and perfect, like pot holders but bread. In a good way! We get back in line to get a cup of frozen Greek yogurt with Cretan honey and share that, too.

Cut to: the afternoon. Sometimes in the Mission, where I live, theres a white van parked on 22nd Street that opens its (car) doors to vend snacks, like fruit in quart containers or cut-to-order coconuts. I notice the vans doors are open and ask for a coconut. Usually, its a guy van-manning, but today its a lady van-womanning. She has long, bright orange nails. With a cleaver, she hacks the coconut deftly. Im humbled and charmed. She hands the coconut juice to me in a zip-top baggy with a straw, and the flesh in a separate baggy, mixed with salt, lemon, chili, and hot sauce. The chili-covered coconut pieces are good weirdly reminiscent of Micheladas.

Dinner is leftovers: stewy chicken, rice, stracciatella. I also steam a bundle of asparagus from the farmers market, and season it simply with salt, pepper, and lemon juice. I put a pat of butter on my asparagus and watch it melt. All in all, a wild Saturday night! I eat the asparagus like fries, and wind up eating all of it, also like fries. For dessert, a butt-shaped kiwi. Naturally, its juicy.

Sunday, March 26 What would a Californian Grub Street Diet be without avocado toast? My favorite trick is to rub a clove of garlic over the hard toasts surface, which sucks up the garlic somehow (really scientific terminology Im using here!). Then I smush avocado on (correct ratio is one avo to one big piece of toast), and drizzle with olive oil, salt, black pepper, and chili flakes. Today, I top the whole thing with a poached egg. It isnt pretty to eat, but it is good and hearty.

Im getting my photo taken for this article at Pho Tan Hoa, my regular pho spot in the Tenderloin. You might even call it a pho-to. (Sorry.) I pose with my regular pho order, the No. 12, rare-beef pho, and an iced coffee. I suck down all the condensed coffee, and after the photographer leaves, I eat the room-temperature prop because thats how my mama raised me.

Lunch is at my friend and former Lucky Peach co-worker Chris Yings house. I left the magazine just this past fall, after five years of living and breathing Lucky Peach. The news of its shuttering is something that, yes, Im feeling pretty emotionally weird about, but that Ive compartmentalized just like Ive compartmentalized the fact were all going to die someday. Anyway! Chris has made katsu don! Eggy katsu and katsu with sauce for dipping, perfect donabe-cooked rice, cabbage lightly dressed with Meyer lemon, and miso soup. We wash it all down with ros. (Inadvertently, Im having a double-katsu, multi-pho week.) Chriss daughter Ruby tries to eat my book, a very good sign.

A couple hours later, were back together: Aralyn Beaumont (also a friend and former co-worker, also in attendance at lunch), Chris, and I have tickets to a Filipino pop-up a kamayan meal well be eating entirely using our hands. Were seated at a long table covered in banana leaves. The rice gets placed down the middle, like an enormous line of cocaine for a giant with a car tiresize nostril. The rice line is adorned with bok choy and shrimp and mangoes and chicken thighs. We convey all the food to our mouths using only our hands. The dinner is BYOB and we BYOed ros. My wine glass, which Ive been pawing at with my food-covered hand, is not surprisingly covered in food. Our friendship has been forged in the fire of magazine deadlines. Now, better slept (well, except for Chris, who has a baby), we polish off two bottles and have a good time. Dessert is a pleasant little Manila-mango tartlet with a peanut crust.

Monday, March 27 Its two regular and orderly butt kiwis for me this morning, then to the caf! Eating two butt kiwis is sort of like eating four normal kiwis because you get two for the price of one (not literally; obviously, theyre sold by the pound). My regular method of peeling kiwis is to cut off both ends and run a spoon around the fruit, where the flesh meets the skin. But its a challenge when theyre butt shaped. I have to peel them over the sink, but the skin comes off in patches. My spouse typically laughs at the wreckage because it looks like a raccoon got into some trash. Thats generally how I eat things, like a raccoon attacking trash.

I have a cup of black coffee at Borderlands, a caf I like for its lack of music, while I type some words. By 11 a.m., Im hungry. At home, I scarf more snacks: prosciutto and olives.

Guess what lunch is? Its pho! Back when we were a gang, the San Francisco Lucky Peach staff religiously went out for pho every Friday, which we staunchly still call Pho-riday. We always went to Pho Tan Hoa, and we still go for old times sake. Last Friday, Aralyn was vacationing in Thailand, so today is a Monday thats an honorary Pho-riday. I cant bring myself to order another beef pho, after the one I ate yesterday: I get seafood, plus a salted plum soda. Theres always a small part of me that wants a No. 41, vermicelli with barbecued pork and nuoc cham, which I could drink daily and never get sick of. So another regular thing is, I force us to share a No. 41. Chris orders it for the table like a dad buying us toys. Our server calls him big guy.

I drink a bottle of stout while Im cooking dinner: fried rice to use up all the languishing things in the fridge. First, I crisp up some garlic and ginger in vegetable oil, so its crispy bits and nice-smelling oil. Then, I fry old rice with kale and herbs and two egg whites leftover from making Paul Bertollis cake. Last, I fry two eggs in butter. The eggs go on the fried rice, and the garlic-ginger-bits oil goes all over. On the side, some steamed Chinese broccoli with oyster sauce and that same garlic-ginger stuff.

Tuesday, March 28 Breakfast is a regular and orderly piece of toast topped with a very ripe avocado that needed to be eaten, and a cup of Sightglass Rwandan coffee.

Im meeting my friend Kate for lunch at the Alamo Drafthouse, the Texan import to San Francisco, because were also watching Beauty and the Beast. Efficiency! Im tempted to order a boozy milkshake, but I havent done enough work today to deserve it. I definitely deserve a beer, though, so I get a HenHouse Saison to go with a Cobb salad because, as Kate correctly puts it, All the other salads seem to be missing one thing. We also share a giant mixing bowl of kimchee-dust popcorn. As for Beauty and the Beast, Im disappointed they dont show Gaston eating five dozen eggs (every morning to help him get large). For dessert, a slice of scone loaf baked by Aralyn a Molly Yeh recipe.

Dinner I have to work for: Im shadowing a class at 18 Reasons called Poories & Punjabistyle curries because I might be teaching one on eggs. Teachers Simran and Stacie teach us to make poories, magical bread that puffs into balloons when you deep-fry it, and an aloo sabzi (tomatoey potato curry), and chana masala (chickpea curry darkened with steeped tea). At the end of class, we eat all our handiwork, plus wine. Everything is spicy, so I eat lots of it. I realize its not a great idea; its just, somehow, what happens. For dessert, carrot halwa with ice cream and chai tea.

Now, Im home, feeling defeated, full, and in mild gastrointestinal pain, nursing a quart container of water. Theres one last butt-shaped kiwi left, and its beckoning me to eat it. Im gonna make some tea, eat my last kiwi. Lets just call that my nightcap.

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