Intermittent fasting focuses on "when" you eat, rather than "what" or "how much." It involves cycling between periods of eating and fasting, with a common schedule being 18 hours of fasting and a ...

Intermittent fasting might help you lose weight — but only if you adhere to some strict guidelines, says one dietitian. “You can’t just eat what you want with intermittent fasting if you want to lose ...

Endorsed by celebrities and chief executives, fasting is gaining popularity across the world as a “bio-hacking” health and weight-loss regimen. A systematic evaluation of 40 trials concluded that ...

Intermittent fasting is under attack, again, as a practice that is ineffective and dangerous. Loyal readers of this column will know I am a big supporter of intermittent fasting. Recently, I refuted a ...

Diets come and diets go. One of the most popular today is “intermittent fasting” in which, as the name suggests, the idea is to limit one’s food intake to certain time windows. One popular variant, ...

Recently I wrote a column about the benefits of “good” stress and the negative effects of “bad” stress, and I mentioned intermittent fasting along with exercise as examples of “good” stress. When I ...

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