SCIENTISTS: Dieting makes your brain eat itself!

Pretty scary, eh, kids?

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

8 thoughts on “SCIENTISTS: Dieting makes your brain eat itself!”

  3. Does this mean fasting regularly makes us dumber?
    No. The process, called autophagy, releases agouti-related peptide (AgRP), which, stimulates hunger even more.
    Most cells in the body undergo autophagy, routinely. Nothing to get excited about. What is important, here, is that this mechanism is responsible for the increase in hunger after the initial hunger.
    The Chicken

  4. When they say fasting, they probably mean total fasting (which Catholics usually don’t do without medical and spiritual director advice). If you look at historical big fasters, the Catholic ones were often eating grains like barley or kamut, which have a little more nourishment than you think and include things like fiber and low glycemic indexes. Usually there was a breakfast (break fast) involved too, which is a lot easier on the body than eating a big dinner and then fasting both overnight and all day.
    Shrug. I assume this is a Ramadan story, anyway.

  5. On a serious note, Obama’s communist revolution of “hope and change” is succeeding, from the soon-to-be establishment of communist-Islamic regimes in the Middle-East to the riots in Europe (UK) and the collapse of the American economy and the start of the communist revolution in America by the Unions and other lefties. It’s going to be ugly. Fasten your seat-belts. Congratulations Obama and Co. and Happy Birthday! Thank you for destroying the world by fooling the poor idiots! You made Marx’s day in Hell!!

  7. “Paul, could you clarify how your post relates to dieting?”
    I don’t speak for Paul, but maybe he means we’ll all be dieting since we won’t be able to afford food in the economic collapse? 🙂

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