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I am not convinced on the fasting point, still feels like a fad to me. What made you adopt it?

• cstansbury 7y ago
  For me, the primary reason to try fasting was to lose weight, or to say it it another way, to lose excess body fat. I was sold on trying fasting after I read Dr. Jason Fung's book called, "The Complete Guide to Fasting". Over the years, I had my successes and failures trying to maintain a proper body weight with different diets. For me, I found that fasting was the easiest and simplest way to lose and now maintain my weight.
• 1e-9 7y ago
  There is an accelerating level of evidence that fasting results in decreased rates of disease and increased longevity. In particular, it appears that having the body in a fat-burning mode during sleep facilitates more effective cellular maintenance and repair. Note that fasting is not calorie restriction. Calories can still be normal. The key point seems to be having long periods of no eating. There is even evidence that having just one meal a day (breakfast) might be the best schedule of all. I would not call any of it definitive, but I have found the studies more than compelling enough to change my own eating habits and encourage friends and family to do likewise.