Jarrett Hayden - Mapping out Proposal - Intermittent Fasting

1. Thesis:

• The dietary regimen, Intermittent Fasting, offers a solution to unhealthy weight gain and provides a way to maintain the weight that I want to be.
• or...... The dietary regimen, Intermittent Fasting, offers a solution to unhealthy weight gain and provides me with an all-around healthier lifestyle.
• Can intermittent fasting be an effective dietary regimen?

2. Hypothesis:

• If I follow a method of intermittent fasting I will lose weight and feel healthier.

3. 5 sources with brief explanation of importance:

Volpe, S. L. (2019). Intermittent fasting—what is it and does it work?. ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal, 23(1), 34-36. https://journals.lww.com/acsm-healthfitness/Fulltext/2019/01000/Intermittent_Fasting___What_Is_It_and_Does_It.10.aspx

- This source will help introduce my topic and gives an answer to whether intermittent fasting results in weight loss and/or health benefits.

de Cabo, R., & Mattson, M. P. (2019). Effects of intermittent fasting on health, aging, and disease. New England Journal of Medicine, 381(26), 2541–2551. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMra1905136

- Cabo and Mattson's write up provides me with all I need to introduce the effects intermittent fasting may have on health, aging, and disease. I would pinpoint this source as my most important.

Frey, R. J., PhD. (2019). Intermittent fasting. The Gale Encyclopedia of Diets, 2(3), 746-751. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2491000187/HWRC?u=munc80314&sid=HWRC&xid=4735bebaL

- This informative page gives me much needed info on the origins and demographics of intermittent fasting. These topics are something either not touched on or glanced over by other sources.

Smith, K. N. (2019). Intermittent fasting for weight loss: effective strategy--or passing fad? one-third of Americans fall into the “obese” category, leading some experts to support “intermittent fasting”--periods of restricted caloric intake. does it work? Environmental Nutrition, 42(7), 7. http://proxy.bsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cin20&AN=136839211&site=ehost-live&scope=site

- Smith's simple article covers the different methods of intermittent fasting in short, bite-sized summaries that will make for easy introductions in my proposal paper. It also covers known research on the increasingly popular diet.

Mattson, M., Longo, V., & Harvie, M. (2017). Impact of intermittent fasting on health and disease processes. Ageing Research Reviews, 39, 46-58. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5411330/

- This review of intermittent fasting is where things start getting complicated. It will act as a way to introduce the complex research done on intermittent fasting. Also, the page shows the common ways of researching the diet which will be necessary for my paper.

Q's for surveys:
Have you ever dieted? If so, was it any particular dietary regimen?