Weekly 2-Day Fast (5:2 Diet) as Effective for Losing Weight and Waist as Continuous Dieting (-500kcal Every Day)
I suspect changing what the subjects ate would have had additional benefits on top of the reduced energy intake. In the medical literature, there are two different interpretations of "intermittent fasting". While one of them refers more or less to what people from the fitness community will think of if you talk with them about "intermittent fasting" (i.e. eating only within a feeding window of 2-6h in 24h), most researchers use "intermittent fasting" as an umbrella-term for all sorts of time-restricted fasting regimens, including alternate-day fasting regimen and their clones, where you fast say 2, 3, or 4 days per week. Regimen such as the one scientists from the University of Melbourne Department of Medicine have recently compared to "classic dieting" (constant daily energy deficit) in 24 males 55–75 year-old war veterans with stable weight problems (body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to 30 kg/m²). Learn more about fasting at...