Intermittent fasting is as effective as calorie counting for weight loss, study finds

When Krista Varady began studying intermittent fasting two decades ago, she felt her research wasn’t taken very seriously.

“All the previous diet fads focused so much on calorie counting or low-fat diets,” she said.

But a new study from Varady and a team of researchers, published Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, showed that limiting food intake to a specific time window was as effective as calorie counting for weight loss.

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