Another way to diet?

There is hardly a year or a season when we don’t hear about a new diet.

I just heard of the new “14:10 diet” that is supposed, among other benefits, to help prevent diabetes, heart disease or stroke, lose weight, reduce cholesterol and sleep better. It consist of eating within a 10-hour window and put your metabolism to rest for the remaining 14 hours.

Difficult for hard-working folks to follow, but super easy for retirees like me!

That diet is the outcome of a study by University of California San Diego School of Medicine. It involved 19 participants (a tiny sample), who had been diagnosed with metabolic syndrome, and that were told not to count calories or exercise more during the 12 weeks duration of the study.

Participants lost an average of 3 per cent in weight and abdominal fat. Many also reduced their cholesterol and blood pressure, and improved blood sugar levels. I just feel much better that I have been doing it for quite a while without knowing it!