Chris Martin eats one meal a day – here’s what it does to your health

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin sparked an online debate today when he revealed he only eats one meal a day.

The singer, 46, said he started the strict diet after having lunch with 73-year-old Bruce Springsteen who was “in better shape” than himself.

There is a significant body of research going back at least a decade suggesting that intermittent fasting can extend a person’s life, induce weight loss, and lower the risk of diseases, including diabetes and Alzheimer’s.

Restricting calories and time spent digesting food intake has been suggested to reduce inflammation levels in the body and give cells time to flush toxic products from the body that could be harmful.

In recent years, however, a small amount of research has emerged linking the trend to a shorter lifespan and a higher risk of heart disease. Experts suggest this may be because intermittent fasters eat more in one sitting, which they say could damage cells.

However, these are early findings and experts say intermittent fasting is still better than overeating, with obesity proven to cause a host of health problems.

Martin also didn’t reveal what he’s eating, though he jokingly joked that it was normally buffalo flank and steroid sauce.

However, he did say he’s a terrible cook – he said he had to call the fire department for the two times he tried to cook in the last 10 years.

Other celebrities who have signed up for the diet in the past include Mark Wahlberg, Chris Hemsworth, and Hugh Jackman.

Proponents of intermittent fasting have highlighted some of the diet plan’s touted health benefits.

They include a major Canadian meta-analysis released in 2020 that analyzed 27 studies from 27 studies that showed that people using the plan could lose up to 13 percent of their weight without any serious adverse effects.

Another meta-analysis published in 2015 by researchers in Salt Lake City, Utah, suggested that the plan made people less likely to develop coronary artery disease or diabetes.

Research has also found that the habit can increase cells’ sensitivity to insulin, which may be due to less of the hormone being released daily, further reducing the risk of diabetes.

Studies in mice have shown that the diet plan can increase longevity and reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

Rodents on the diet seem less susceptible to a buildup of dangerous beta-amyloid proteins in the brain.

However, these benefits have yet to be confirmed in humans – some studies now suggest the opposite.

A paper published last year that followed 24,000 Americans over age 40 warned that those who ate one meal a day were 30 percent more likely to die from any cause in 15 years compared to those who ate three.

This was true even when people exercised, ate healthily and rarely smoked or drank alcohol, the researchers claimed.

Scientists suggested this was because fasters end up consuming a large amount of food at once, which can put additional stress on the body as it tries to digest a bunch of calories and nutrients at once.

However, they added that it was too early to say for sure that intermittent fasting played a role in causing early deaths.

Another suggested that intermittent fasting was no more effective for weight loss than restricting your calorie intake.

And a third conducted in mice suggested that skipping breakfast could increase the risk of developing heart disease or cancer.

Experts have previously warned DailyMail.com that people should be careful if they choose to fast intermittently.