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Intermittent Fasting: Why Is It So Popular For Weight Loss?

Intermittent Fasting: Why Is It So Popular For Weight Loss?

Intermittent Fasting: Why Is It So Popular For Weight Loss?
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Intermittent fasting or the method of losing weight by starving for some specific time is becoming very popular. Is this method really as useful as people say and is fasting good for your health?

Intermittent fasting people follow either a 5 ratio 2 (5: 2) formula or a 16 ratio 8 (16: 8) formula, ie eat five days as usual and then 500 or 600 calories for two days. Do not eat more than. While some go hungry for 16 hours and then eat no more than five or six hundred calories in eight hours.

Whichever of these methods you want to lose weight, the main thing is what you are eating on a normal day and on a hungry day.

The popularity of Intermittent Fasting (IF) can be gauged from the fact that this method of dieting has been the most popular last year, according to a survey by an international organization.

There are many forms of Intermittent fasting, but what they all have in common is that you eat very little at regular intervals.

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Different Routines

  • At 16: 8, you fast for 16 hours in 24 hours and then eat and drink for eight hours. People who adopt this method often eat between 12 noon and 8 pm and fast from 8 pm to 12 noon.
  • In the 5: 2 formula you eat a normal meal five days a week while you eat only 25% of your normal calories on two specific days.
  • In a 24-hour fast, you would be completely hungry for a whole day (24 hours) every week or every month.
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Fans of intermittent fasting say it’s a great way to lose weight. Eleven of the 16 annual dietary reviews in 2017 included participants who said they had lost weight.

It’s not for everyone

Intermittent fasting may be unsuitable for people who have certain health problems.

For example, people who have high diabetes, eating problems, complex illnesses, women who are pregnant or breastfeeding should not experience intermittent fasting. Such people should not follow this type of diet unless they consult a doctor.

Similarly, people who have stomach ulcers should not fast in this way.

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Tradition of fasting

Although the history of fasting religiously, culturally and spiritually is very old, the tradition of fasting is even older.

Every year, millions of Muslims fast from dawn to dusk in the month of Ramadan.

If the fast of Ramadan is observed properly, the energy of the body is restored every day, which will help you to lose weight without losing useful muscles.

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