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.
It’s so stupid but I’d by lying if I hadnt tried it once because of peer pressure.
Societal beauty expectations go brrrrrr.
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?
healthy and good for certain bodies, worth doing some research on your own to see if it feels worth trying.
Here’s a good article comparing a couple different studies: https://skepchick.org/2023/06/study-can-you-fast-your-way-to-good-health-maybe/
TLDR is it’s not conclusive, but you can ask your doctor about trying it out and as long as you don’t turn it into an eating disorder and starve yourself, it might be worth seeing how it works.
It’s reasonable but afaik it’s not really significantly better than other equivalent healthy lifestyle changes. I’m avoiding the term “diet” since that carries too much baggage, but you get what I’m driving at.
I think there’s additional benefits if you’re pre-diabetic as it takes the pressure off your body’s capacity to manage your blood glucose levels.
It can be really good for some people, for others it doesn’t work any better than other options, and it really doesn’t work for some people. If you don’t have any major health concerns then there’s little harm in trying it but it’s not like some massive cheat code where all the work of a healthy lifestyle is addressed by using this one simple trick.
There’s some woo arguments in favor of it, but it’s not completely bs, IMO.
It’s basically a way to trick yourself into eating less by restricting the hours of the day you eat. Once you’re doing it for a while your body adapts to it and you’re much less hungry during your fasting hours.
I lost 60 pounds doing it without much pain. I still fast 12 hours(which is mostly sleeping) to maintain the loss.
