Intermittent fasting is an eating pattern that restricts your food intake to a specific time window. Daily time-restricted feeding (eating 6-8 hours a day and fasting for 16-18 hours) and 5:2 intermittent fasting (fasting two days a week, usually capping a fasting day at 500 calories) can greatly improve your health. Some of the benefits of intermittent fasting on weight loss:Decreased calorie intakeRestricting your meals and snacks to a strict time window may naturally decrease your calorie intake, which can aid weight loss. Intermittent fasting may reduce body weight by up to 8% and decrease body fat by up to 16% over 3–12 weeks. Support blood sugar control:A small study in 10 people with type 2 diabetes noted that intermittent fasting helped significantly decrease blood sugar levels.

Source: The Guardian December 28, 2019 09:22 UTC