Eat now, starve tomorrow
Simon Webster; 27/4/08
A new diet in which people eat whatever they want one day, then starve themselves the next, has been labelled “part-time anorexia”, “dangerous” and “the daftest diet yet”. However, it is understood the critics were cranky because they hadn’t eaten that day. The next morning they would have raved about it, had their faces not been stuffed with cream buns. The Alternate Day Diet, also known as the UpDay DownDay Diet, was the brainwave of American plastic surgeon James B. Johnson. On “down days” participants consume as little as 20 per cent of their recommended calorie intake. Johnson says he got the idea from seeing a study on the longevity of rats that were fed only every other day.
See: http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/eat-now-starve-tomorrow/2008/04/26/1208743314801.html