There was a very interesting documentary on intermittent fasting on BBC Horizon titled 'Eat, Fast, Live Longer' where Michael Mosley experimented with himself fasting trying different types of fasting including intermittent fasting.
It did help him alot but the cool thing was there was a guy who lived on a meal a day which had athlete like body fat levels.
There's also a runner, Fauja Singh, who ran a marathon at 101 years of age featured in it who practices something close to intermittent fasting [1]
It was extremely interesting and I do feel after watching it that 3 meals a day is something conjured by man but may not really be all that natural.
It did help him alot but the cool thing was there was a guy who lived on a meal a day which had athlete like body fat levels.
There's also a runner, Fauja Singh, who ran a marathon at 101 years of age featured in it who practices something close to intermittent fasting [1]
It was extremely interesting and I do feel after watching it that 3 meals a day is something conjured by man but may not really be all that natural.
Link to episode intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGHDBIaibok
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauja_Singh