Intermittent fasting focuses on "when" you eat, rather than "what" or "how much." It involves cycling between periods of eating and fasting, with a common schedule being 18 hours of fasting and a ...

Every New Year, many people create resolutions for what they hope to accomplish in the coming 12 months. For some, it is “Dry January"; for others, it is a decision to lose weight. The federal Centers ...

Mikhail Kogan, MD, regularly prescribes a form of intermittent fasting known as time-restricted eating (TRE), among other interventions, to his patients, about 30% of whom are obese. Mikhail Kogan, MD ...

As anyone seeking to lose weight knows, diets come in and out of fashion. The Sexy Pineapple diet, launched by a Danish psychologist in 1970, never really took off. Kellogg’s no longer promotes the ...

Intermittent fasting (IF) is a structured eating approach that focuses on the timing of when you eat. Research suggests that IF may support metabolic health, hormone balance, brain function, and ...

Recently I wrote a column about the benefits of “good” stress and the negative effects of “bad” stress, and I mentioned intermittent fasting along with exercise as examples of “good” stress. When I ...