• There may be no need to go hungry - intermittent fasting doesn’t cause weight loss anywayCatherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images There may be no need to go hungry - intermittent fasting doesn’t cause weight loss anyway Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images Intermittent fasting appears to be no more effective forweight lossthan doing nothing at all, according to a review of studies involving people who were overweight or had obesity. • Thediethas become a popular weight-loss strategy in recent years and involves alternating between periods of fasting and normal eating. • This can include eating only during a set window each day, such as the 16:8 diet, where you fast for 16 hours and eat within an 8-hour period; or eating normally on some days and very little on others, like the 5:2 diet, where you eat as normal on five days a week and restrict calories on the other two. • Read moreYour BMI can’t tell you much about your health - here’s what can Read more Your BMI can’t tell you much about your health - here’s what can The idea is that limiting when people can eat reduces their overall calorie intake, but one randomised-controlled trial found it isno better for weight loss than calorie counting. • To learn more,Luis Garegnaniat the Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires in Argentina and his colleagues analysed data from 22 randomised-controlled studies of intermittent fasting, involving nearly 2000 adults across North America, Europe, China, Australia and South America. • The participants were aged 18 to 80 and were either overweight or had obesity.
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