![]() Religious cultures have practiced it for centuries. ![]() While the buzz surrounding IF is recent, this practice isn’t new. Many clinicians feel their patients have more success with intermittent fasting when eating low-carb or higher protein diets, but there is currently insufficient evidence that pairing one particular type of diet with IF is superior to another. However, that may not mean people can eat whatever they want during the eating window. One nonrandomized trial showed improved weight loss, blood sugar, and lipids with as little as 14 hours of daily fasting and no change in the participants’ baseline diet. You may be more likely to get better health benefits if you also pay attention to what kinds of foods you eat, but some studies involving IF that did not control what people ate still showed meaningful improvements. ![]() It is not a diet, per se, since it doesn’t specify what to eat it only specifies when to eat. Intermittent fasting, often abbreviated as IF, is any voluntary time period where you go without food. ![]()
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