Comment by Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org on Anybody got the scoop on intermittent fasting? Is it actually healthy?

I’m not in a position where I can research it at the moment, but I kinda doubt it.

Feels more like a way to make skipping meals trendy.

I’ll look it up when I get home from work.

Feels more like a way to make skipping meals trendy.

I don’t think so, it might not be for some people but it’s not a fad diet like keto.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/intermittent-fasting/faq-20441303

God I fucking hate Keto

It’s so stupid but I’d by lying if I hadnt tried it once because of peer pressure.

Societal beauty expectations go brrrrrr.

I also tried it. Shit was terrible

It definitionally is a fad diet. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it, but it’s important to recognize it for what it is.

What about the millions of people who “just don’t eat breakfast”? Are they a fad too?

Skipping breakfast is not the same as having strict windows when you can and can’t eat.

Someone who eats lunch right after noon and dinner before 8 is basically doing the same thing.

“Oops I stopped eating at 9:11 instead of 8:59, my diet plan is fucked” said no one ever.

Fad = not following random vibe takes on hexbear

I thought fad diets came and went or is it different?

It was hugely popular for a minute there, diet industry grifters have written books and made influencer cOnTeNt about it, it is less popular now but still talked about, it’s repackaged old advice, will probably fall totally out of fashion when enough trendy “new” diets replace it. I’d certainly call it a fad diet.

See you’ve described the keto diet there but I’ve known people practising intermittent fasting of just skipping breakfast or having a yoghurt drink and saying they feel great.

Doctors say it’s fine and unlike keto it provides consistent results provided you keep up with it vs dropping weight and then gaining it straight like most fad diets do.

I think intermittent fasting feels more a dietary routine/choice vs a intentional diet focused on specifically losing weight and I certainly don’t think it’s a fad just cos some infulencers jumped on it.

Plenty of doctors say keto is fine. Doctors frankly give shitty dietary advice and will in fact praise disordered eating behavior in fat people if it results in weight loss.

IF does meet the criteria of a fad diet. Agree to disagree there.

It works for some people. It triggers disordered eating in some people. Some people find it difficult to stick to longterm. These statements are true of all diets. IF is no exception.

Edited to add: you said unlike other diets, IF keeps working provided you keep up with it. You have in fact just described all diets. They all work until you stop doing them. And most people stop doing them because they aren’t really sustainable long-term. IF is not an exception here. It is perhaps easier to sustain for longer than keto, but having strict rules about what times you can eat is not sustainable for most people long-term.

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