Are You Missing Out on the Benefits of Fasting?
When it comes to losing weight, there are no shortage of unproven recommendations to choose from: fad diets like the carnivore diet or GOLO diet; juice cleanses and vitamin injections; plus a host of powders, shakes, pills, supplements and other weight-loss products are constantly being touted on social media and across the internet despite often not providing the benefits they are purported to have.
At the same time, many legitimate and proven diets such as the DASH diet and the Mediterranean diet are also commonly suggested – as are well-studied and important recommendations to limit sugar or salt intake, reduce excessive calories, and exercise more frequently.
Somewhere in between the two, intermittent fasting has been growing in popularity. It has captured the attention of doctors, dieticians, and even celebrities like Jennifer Aniston, Chris Pratt, Kourtney Kardashian, and Jimmy Kimmel, per People magazine.
Excerpted from USA Today
