Intermittent Fasting Benefits & Risks
In recent years, various intermittent fasting plans have become popular with people seeking to lose weight or improve their health.
The most popular regimens generally involve very low or no calorie intake on certain days per week, then eating normally on non-fasting days.
ALTERNATE DAY FASTING
Professor Krista Varady created the Every-Other-Day Diet, based on her groundbreaking research into ‘alternate-day modified fasting’ at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Proponents describe it as ‘the diet that lets you eat all you want (half the time) and keep the weight off!’
The plan involves alternate ‘fast’ and ‘feast’ days. Fasting days consist of a single 500 calorie meal at lunchtime. But then there is no restriction on what, when or how much is eaten on feasting days.
The two key attractions are:
• The promise that ‘you’ll lose weight and improve your health – while eating anything you
