Resources
- Wiki (Wikipedia page on fasting)
- Healthline Intermittent Fasting 101 (The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide)
- Healthline (6 Popular Ways to Do Intermittent Fasting)
- John Hopkins Medicine (Intermittent Fasting: What is it, and how does it work?)
- Harvard Health Publishing (Intermittent fasting: Surprising update)
- Diet Doctor (All intermittent fasting guides)
- Found My Fitness (Fasting)
- Web MD (Fasting: What You Should Know)
- Peter Attia MD (Learn more about fasting, including types of fasting, fasting metabolism, health effects, and mechanisms of fasting)
- Boulder Medical Center (The science, methods, and benefits of fasting)
- Mayo Clinic (What is intermittent fasting? Does it have health benefits?)
- University of Florida Health (Intermittent fasting leads to significant weight loss, slows aging, UF research review finds)
- South Lake Hospital (Will Intermittent Fasting Work for Me)
- Nature (Intermittent fasting is gaining interest fast)
- NPR.org (Eat For 10 Hours. Fast For 14. This Daily Habit Prompts Weight Loss, Study Finds)
- James Clear (The Beginner’s Guide to Intermittent Fasting)
- Buchinger Wilhelmi (Therapeutic fasting and nutritional strategies)
- Everyday Health (The 7 Types of Intermittent Fasting, and What to Know About Them)
- Heated.Medium (Why Fasting Works)
- Cleveland Clinic (Intermittent Fasting: 4 Different Types Explained)
- The Fasting Method (By Dr. Jason Fung and Megan Ramos)
- Dr. Will Cole (Intuitive Fasting)
- MedicineNet (Fasting diets introduction)
- Sleep Foundation (Why Intermittent Fasting Can Lead to Better Sleep)
- Lifehack (10 Benefits of Fasting That Will Surprise You)
- UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine (Cancer and Fasting / Calorie Restriction)
- Nerd Fitness (Intermittent Fasting Beginner’s Guide: Should You Skip Breakfast!?)
- Life Apps (Blog)
- Life Apps (A physicians journey to health through intermittent fasting
- willingly abstaining for a period of time (r/fasting)
- Intermittent Fasting (r/intermittentfasting)
- The Science of Fasting (r/FastingScience)
- Leangains – for practitioners of Martin Berkhan’s intermittent fasting program (r/leangains)
- r/Water_Fasting (r/Water_Fasting)
- Fasting News – A free resource making the science behind fasting understandable and straightforward to implement
- intermittent_fasting_beginners – Open for Questions 24/7 Burn Fat. Fast!
- Zero Fasting (Fast for whole body health)
- The Fasting Method (Online fasting program by @drjasonfung & @meganjramos to help people lose weight)
- Dr. Will Cole (IntuitiveFasting)
- Clinic Buchinger Wilhelmi (World leading fasting clinics with 100+ years experience in Health. Fasting)
Media Coverage
- BBC- Why is intermittent fasting so popular? (By Shivaani Kohok)
- BBC – Fasting diet ‘regenerates diabetic pancreas’ (By James Gallagher)
- BBC – Intermittent fasting: The good things it did to my body (By Peter Bowes)
- Today (4 tips to keep an intermittent fasting diet on track)
- The Wall Street Journal – The Fasting Cure Is No Fad (By Andreas Michalsen)
- The Washington Post – How sensible intermittent fasting can keep you healthy (By Jennifer Cook)
- The New York Times – The Benefits of Intermittent Fasting (By Jane E. Brody)
- CBC – Intermittent fasting: Why not eating (for a bit) could work for weight loss and health (CBC Radio)
- Global News – Fasting for weight loss? Here’s why scientists say it works long-term (By Carmen Chai)
- Medical News Today – Seven Ways to do Intermittent Fasting (By Jayne Leonard)
- Medical News Today – A guide to 16:8 intermittent fasting (By Jayne Leonard)
- Women’s Health – 6 Popular Intermittent Fasting Schedules For Weight Loss, Explained By Experts (By Kristin Canning)
- Times Of India (Weight loss: Different stages of Intermittent Fasting, explained)
- Mint – Is intermittent fasting truly for everyone? (By Shrabonti Bagchi)
- India Today – What is intermittent fasting? (By Raya Ghosh)
- New Scientist – Fasting power: Can going without food really make you healthier? (By Caroline Williams)
- Scientific American – How Good a Diet Is Intermittent Fasting? (By Claudia Wallis)
- Golf.com – Phil Mickelson explains how his age-defying fasting diet ‘resets’ his body (By Luke Kerr-Dineen)
- Dr. Jason Fung (@drjasonfung)
- Megan Ramos (@meganjramos)
- Abel James – Fat Burning Man (@fatburnman)
- Amy Berger (@TuitNutrition)
- Dr. Bert (@bertherringmd)
- Thomas N. Seyfried (@tnseyfried)
- Mark Sisson (@Mark_Sisson)
- Robb Wolf (@robbwolf)
- Jimmy Moore (@livinlowcarbman)
- Dr. Tro (@DoctorTro)
- Peter Attia (@PeterAttiaMD)
- Dr. Rhonda Patrick (@foundmyfitness)
- The Fasting Method Network (by Dr. Jason Fung & Megan Ramos)
- Intermittent Fasting for Beginners (tips, inspirations, and weight-loss)
- Dig Deeper Health (Fasting Support)
- Official Fasting for Weight Loss (Fasting for complete victory)
- Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle (For anyone interested in or practicing an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle)
- OMAD 23:1 (Intermittent Fasting)
- Breaking Fast (Refeeding Safely)
- Delay, Don’t Deny (Intermittent Fasting Support)
- Fasting and Autophagy (Created this group so we can freely discuss fasting and Autophagy without being judged)
ORLANDO HEALTH: DOES INTERMITTENT FASTING WORK?
Intermittent fasting (IF) is the process of manipulating your calorie intake based on a time schedule. Basically, it means condensing your meals for the day into a smaller window of time; for example, eating all of your meals between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm.
Is intermittent fasting safe or silly?
Intermittent fasting (IF) is the process of manipulating your calorie intake based on a time schedule. Basically, it means condensing your meals for the day into a smaller window of time; for example, eating all of your meals between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm.
Intermittent Fasting Works, Helps at Least in the Short Term
Combined results from a total of 130 clinical trials show that intermittent fasting could help reduce weight, body mass index (BMI), body fat, “bad” cholesterol, fasting blood sugar, and blood pressure, among other risk factors associated with obesity.