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A beginner’s guide to intermittent FASTING

Part-day fasting – where you eat for eight hours and take a break for 16 – gives our body a rest from constantly processing food and flooding our blood with sugars, as well as an opportunity to burn fat stores for fuel. During the fasting period, the body is under mild stress, causing a few really fascinating things to happen in

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