Intermittent or alternate-day fasting requires routinely alternating between eating little or no food and then feasting in your daily diet. For one year, each group had to adhere to an alternate-day fasting diet, a calorie-restriction diet or no diet. The dropout rate in the alternate-day fasting group was 38%, versus 29% in the daily calorie-restriction group, the researchers found. Whereas the alternate-day fasting group, they were kind of wavering," said Varady, who authored a book about alternate-day fasting called "The Every-Other-Day Diet." "Alternate-day fasting doesn't seem to work very well in people who are frequent snackers.

Source: CNN May 01, 2017 15:00 UTC