the fast diet

Over the last few decades, food fads have come and gone, but the standard medical advice on what constitutes a healthy lifestyle has stayed much the same: eat low-fat foods, exercise more... and never, ever skip meals. Over that same period, levels of obesity worldwide have soared. So is there a different, evidence-based approach? One that relies on science, not opinion? Well, we think there is. Intermittent Fasting. When we first read about the alleged benefits of Intermittent Fasting, we, like many, were sceptical. Fasting seemed drastic, difficult and we both knew that dieting, of any description, is generally doomed to fail. But now that we've looked at it in depth and tried it ourselves, we are convinced of its remarkable potential. As one of the medical experts interviewed for this book puts it: 'There is nothing else you can do to your body that is as powerful as fasting.'