There is, at least in certain places online, a lot of “chatter” about whether or not you should practice intermittent fasting. Many folks who used to previously tout intermittent fasting as some sort of miracle of modern dieting have backtracked, and now a lot of those “influencers” (or whoever-the-heck they might be) recommend a more standard, traditional approach to dieting for building muscle and burning fat. Recently, there was even that god-awful “study” from the American Heart Association that showed a “91% increased likelihood of death” from heart complications by following intermittent fasting. Now, this isn’t the place to discuss the real problems and politics around that so-called study, it will suffice for now to point out that its metrics were just plain wrong. And, of course, on the flip side of all of that you also have the defenders, rightly so, of the benefits of various forms of fasting. ...
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