NOT SO FAST: INTERMITTENT FASTING MAY NOT LEAD TO WEIGHT LOSS Over the past few years, the appeal of losing weight by simply limiting eating to just six or eight hours a day has gained many followers. After all, it’s a heck of a lot easier to stick to a diet where you can eat whatever you wish—you just have to eat in a narrower time window. Timed-restricted eating has become so trendy that I posted on it two years ago in August 2020: Is Intermittent Fasting the Diet For You? However, I now need to tell you of a...

IS INTERMITTENT FASTING THE DIET FOR YOU? I’ve gone through the pros and cons of a number of diets in my past posts including the ketogenic diet, the MIND diet, and three years worth of Best Diet Rankings from U.S. News.  This week I’d like to talk about a trendy diet that concentrates on when you eat rather than what you eat.  It’s called intermittent fasting.  There isn’t a whole lot of research on this diet, but what there is points to extensive health benefits. Intermittent fasting has been especially studied in rodents.  If you feed rats just every other...