Eating well during the week and splurging on chips and ice-cream on the weekend may seem like the ideal way to keep your weight and health under control, but this yo-yo approach to eating can be just as damaging to a person's health as a diet consistently made up of junk food, a new study reveals.
Three days of consuming foods high in fat and sugar – despite eating healthy foods the other four days – was enough to dramatically change the gut bacteria in rats so that it was the same as obese rats whose diet was constantly made up of junk food.
And rats who were in the cycled eating program consumed 30 per cent more energy than those who were eating healthily all the time. This expanded energy-intake swung drastically the other way after the rats went back to a healthy diet, they ate half as much food as their counterparts.
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