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  • This is true... BUT... Repeated excursions into near-starvation WILL cue your metabolism to slow down just as it would with full blown starvation. It's not as though there is a certain point, at 72 hours when the starvation switch gets thrown. These are also facts confirmed both by my own experience and "studies"
  • Fasting for religious/spiritual reasons or to "detox" is great. I am uncertain about long term usefulness with regard to fitness and weight loss. I understand that the OP refers to an intermittent program, but even so: People with "normal" metabolic function may lose weight through fasting initially, but eventually…
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  • I speak English as a first language and can usually struggle through most anything written in a romance language. I speak a smattering of conversational German and would love to learn Welsh as I am of Welsh extraction.
    in Languages Comment by Anoetos April 2011
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