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The specifics of intermittent fasting
There are three approaches to take:
- Alternate day fasting: Eat whatever you want on off days, but limit calories to around 500 on fasting days.
- The 5:2 diet, which involves fasting during the week and making eating what you want on weekends.
- Time-restricted eating. Eating is limited to an eight-hour window each day. Most people make it from noon to 8 p.m.
The diet doesn't specify what you should be eating, only when.
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Why eating less means more
Typical Western diets consist of simple carbohydrates, such as pizza or sandwiches. These food items provide the glucose your body uses as fuel. Spiking glucose increases insulin levels, which the body uses to process blood sugars.
- Fasting for 16 hours ev...
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Intermittent fasting
Paying attention to when you eat is as important as what you're eating. Intermittent fasting is a simple way to start experimenting with a diet. It requires you to abstain from food, or at least most food, for specific periods.
Diets based on intermittent...
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Time-restricted eating does not help with weight loss
A 12-week randomized trial found that overweight adults who started time-restricted eating lost about the same weight as a control group, and most of the weight lost was lean muscle mass, not fat.
But the take on time-restricted eating is still open because so few studies exist that examin...
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What Intermittent fasting is
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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Intermittent fasting (IF)
Intermittent fasting (IF) became very popular back in 2013 with "The 8-hour diet" by David Zinczenko and Peter Moore. They claimed that eating your food within an 8-hour window would result in drastic weight loss.
Unlike other diets, IF is about limiting when you e...
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