LONDON - People who start fasting every other day may lose more weight than they would if they stuck to their usual eating habits, a small study suggests.
“We do not recommend this as a general nutrition scheme for everybody, because this is a harsh intervention of which we do not know the long-term effects,” said Frank Madeo, senior author of the study and a researcher at the University of Graz in Austria. To get a sense of the safety of alternate day fasting, researchers looked at a separate group of 30 people who had been eating this way for at least 6 months, comparing them to healthy people who had not been fasting.One limitation of the study is that researchers didn’t test the diet in people who needed to lose weight.
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