Eli5: Can someone break down the health benefits of intermittent fasting and why it’s gaining in popularity? How can NOT eating regular meals be healthy?
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The theory of diets is relatively simple: reduce the number of calories that you eat, while making sure you still get your vitamins and other necessary nutrients.
Unfortunately, the “eat less” part is very difficult; hunger is a very basic need, present in all animals, and it’s very strong, difficult to resist. With a “regular meal” diet you’ll have food in front of you regularly, and you’re trying to eat less, so that means you’ll be hungry with food in front of you regularly. That’s hard.
With intermittent fasting, if you skip lunch or even all day, you’re MORE hungry while you’re fasting, but at least there’s no food in front of you, and you can keep busy with work or whatever and keep your mind off the hunger.
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