You may have heard the new buzz in health - intermittent fasting.

This is a new take on the old concept of doing without food. Back several centuries ago people would fast severely for long periods of time.

Portland, OR -- However, this often was not voluntary. It was called crop failure, drought, or starvation. Now days in the developed countries there is more to eat than ever before. Not all of it is good for us, especially if we try to eat it all at once. 

Those that focus on both waist sizes and health have done a little bit of studying. They are finding that we don’t have to count calories every day. They are showing that occasional calories restriction actually works better than constant calorie restriction. It doesn’t even have to be a full day, partial days’ work well too.The benefits of intermittent fasting go far beyond losing weight. They include fighting diabetes, improving inflammation, reducing blood pressure, improving your metabolic rate, improving pancreatic function, improving cardiovascular health, reducing LDL and cholesterol levels, reducing hunger, reducing the risk of cancer, and improving memory and learning.

Eating healthier is definitely getting easier. Cooking healthy food at home, though, can often be tricky. It’s tough to know which healthy recipes are actually going to taste good, and some recipes seem as though you need a culinary degree to figure it all out.

To make it easier for you, here are some recipes that taste amazing and are easy enough for novice cooks and clumsy bakers to get right. These are some of tried-and-true recipes. They're great intros to the anti-inflammatory diet, and are just a few of the many great recipes found in The Immune System Recovery Plan by Dr. Susan Blum.

Eating healthier is definitely getting easier. Cooking healthy food at home, though, can often be tricky. It’s tough to know which healthy recipes are actually going to taste good, and some recipes seem as though you need a culinary degree to figure it all out. To make it easier for you, here are some recipes that taste amazing and are easy enough for novice cooks and clumsy bakers to get right. These are some of tried-and-true recipes. They're great intros to the anti-inflammatory diet, and are just a few of the many great recipes found in The Immune System Recovery Plan by Dr. Susan Blum

Eating healthier is definitely getting easier. Cooking healthy food at home, though, can often be tricky. It’s tough to know which healthy recipes are actually going to taste good, and some recipes seem as though you need a culinary degree to figure it all out.

To make it easier for you, here are some recipes that taste amazing and are easy enough for novice cooks and clumsy bakers to get right. These are some of tried-and-true recipes. They're great intros to the anti-inflammatory diet, and are just a few of the many great recipes found in The Immune System Recovery Plan by Dr. Susan Blum.

According to the National Institute of Health, there is no known cause of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA). Also known as juvenile chronic polyarthritis, Still’s disease and juvenile idiopathic arthritis, this debilitating disease is thought to be an autoimmune illness that causes the body to attack and destroy healthy body tissue by mistake. However, if your doctor merely looks at blood work, x-rays and your joints for the answer, then he or she might be looking in the wrong places.

Take 13-year-old Kristina for example. She was a typical case of polyarticular JRA, which involves many joints. This form of JRA can turn into rheumatoid arthritis and involve five or more large and small joints of the legs and arms, as well as the jaw and neck.

Millions of us have tried to lose weight with a diet in the past year

However, seeing as so many try and fail, are diets in fact a flawed concept? Mintel estimates the diet industry will be worth more than £1.9billion by 2017. There are diet apps, books, online plans, supermarket ranges and home delivery services, all enticing us with promises of weight loss.

Yet despite the popularity of the countless eating plans on the market, in 2007, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles concluded dieting actually makes you gain weight. People on diets typically lost five to ten per cent of their starting weight in the first six months – but up to two thirds regained more weight than they had lost within five years.

We asked four industry experts to thrash it out in our big diet debate: