From the February 2020 issue of UCLA Health's Healthy Years (HY)
Improve Health, Extend Life Span, and Lose Weight?
These are some of the many claims about the benefits of fasting. This is what the science says.
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There are many reasons why people choose to fast. Some do it for religious purposes. Others may do so in an attempt to lose weight or improve health. In the extreme, there are approaches that require fasting for days or weeks and those that involve drinking various concoctions. Be especially wary, however, of vague, unsubstantiated […]