A major new study reveals intermittent fasting may be no better than traditional dieting for weight loss — challenging ...

Intermittent fasting, one of America’s most popular diet trends, may be no more effective than simply cutting calories for weight loss, a new review of research shows. Researchers found little to no ...

The idea is that the body exhausts the calories consumed through food and then relies on fat stores, reducing weight through ...

A new review fails to find much of any added weight loss benefit from intermittent fasting compared to typical diet advice.

Overall, they found no difference in weight loss, quality-of-life or adverse events between any of the groups, including those engaged in intermittent fasting, dietary advice and no intervention.

But researchers say it could still improve someone's overall health through helpful changes to some body functions.

The popular eating strategy is about as effective as doing nothing to lose weight, according to a review of several clinical trials ...

Intermittent fasting has become a buzzword in nutrition circles, with many people looking to it as a way to lose weight or ...

But a major scientific review suggests the approach may offer no clear advantage over conventional dieting. Limited weight ...

A Cochrane analysis of 22 trials and 1,995 participants found the popular strategy produced nearly identical weight loss and quality of life.

They concluded with moderate certainty that intermittent fasting has little to no effect on weight loss. They concluded with very low certainty that it has little to no impact on the “general physical ...