5-2 Diet

Intermittent fasting is an eating pattern that involves regular fasting.The 5:2 diet, also known as The Fast Diet, is currently the most popular intermittent fasting diet.It's called the 5:2 diet because five days of the week are normal eating days, while the other two restrict calories to 500 - 600 per day.

At first, skipping meals, may sound like just another celebrity fad diet. Indeed, Jimmy Kimmel swears by a version of it. But non-celebrities have had great success with brief periods of fasting, also known as intermittent eating. Mark Mattson, a neuroscientist at the National Institute on Aging who regularly fasts, told the New York Times that he eats all of his...

More people than ever are trying to lose weight using the 5-2 fasting diet and when it comes to its benefits for longevity and fighting disease, the reseaerch is piling up

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