Bust Those Intermittent Fasting Myths!
Trying to lose weight? Well, one fad diet that you’ve probably tried or are considering trying is intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting is when you restrict eating to only a certain number of hours a day, or when you significantly reduce your calorie intake on certain days. With a lot of information coming out about intermittent fasting, how can you tell what’s real and what’s not? Skipping meals twice a week, not eating all day long, eating only from noon to six. It’s called intermittent fasting, some people swear by it.
“I think it could probably have a lot of different health benefits,” Anne Haney Cross, MD a professor of neurology at Washington University in St. Louis told Ivanhoe.
And some are outright against it.
“Not eating for hours and hours and hours is not going to help you perform at your best,” Tara Collingwood, a registered dietician at Diet Diva, shared with Ivanhoe.
But what should you believe when deciding whether to try it for yourself? First…
“If you don’t eat, you’re going to lose weight,” said Collingwood.
Excerpted from WMC5
