Popular types of fasting
- Intermittent fasts: eating no food or massively cutting back on calorie intake only intermittently;
- Time-restricted feeding: involves consuming calories only for a 4- to 6-hour window each day.
- Periodic fasts, the most extreme, typically last several days or longer.
- Fasting-mimicking diet, a plant-based diet that involves eating very few calories for several days each month.
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Shorter fasts ( less than 24hrs):
- 16:8: eating only during an 8-hour window during the day and fasting for the remaining 16 hours.
- 20:4: 4-hour eating window and a 20-hour fast.
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The specifics of intermittent fasting
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- Alternate day fasting: Eat whatever you want on off days, but limit calories to around 500 on fasting days.
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Intermittent fasting is based on the idea that when you reduce your calorie intake for limited stretches of time, your body will use its stored fat for energy. Intermittent fasting has many health benefits, including losing weight.
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