Chicago: University of Illinois Chicago nutrition researchers evaluated 80 persons with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and discovered that those who followed an alternate-day fasting diet and exercised were able to improve their health. Publishing their findings in Cell Metabolism, the researchers report that over a period of three months people who exercised and alternated feast and fast days -- eating without restriction one day and eating 500 calories or less the next -- saw increased insulin sensitivity and decreased liver fat, weight and ALT, or alanine transaminase enzymes, which are markers for liver disease.
