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Just listened to the podcast on BBC Radio 4 about high intensity training followed by a comment about fasting two days a week.

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/rad ... -2130a.mp3

The programme is called Inside Health with Dr Mark Porter and is broadcast again live on BBC Radio 4 at 15:30 hours today (Wed 17 April)

Dr Margaret McCartney being sceptical about HIIT - as she was the previous week (or two?) ago about 5:2! Good to hear the corrective about 5:2 at the end of the piece quoting an email from Will Wallace. Is he one of us I wonder?

Judging by the photo on her blog Dr Margaret isn't exactly an advert for for being terribly slim so maybe she is anti all diets?
Thanks for the link Navwoman,Inside Health is a good series and I missed it last week. Off to listen now!

I have watched a few other programmes in this series and have yet to find Dr Margaret McCartney positive about anything. There is nothing worse than having someone tell you that you are going to fail (ie stop after a few weeks) just as you start a change in lifestyle. Yes, it's still early days for the 5:2 diet and also the HIIT but scientific research has to be done over a period of time to get a more accurate outcome and even in the early stages there are so many positives for following the 5:2 plan.

she does at least quote the sources she elected to ignore

The most recent studies in patients with established heart disease suggest that a high relative, yet aerobic, intensity of the exercise training improves the intrinsic pump capacity of the myocardium, an effect not previously believed to occur with exercise training

for example.

http://drmarkporter.co.uk/high-intensity-exercise/

"more people have strokes in their beds than they do in the gym"