10 HE ALTH • Spring 2020
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By Grant Welker
e latest trend in dieting calls for restricting
the times in which you eat, although results are
different for everyone
Intermittent eating
it's one being talked about and studied
as a new effective way to lose weight.
Of course, just because intermittent
fasting is being written about and stud-
ied often today doesn't mean it's a new
concept.
"It's been around since the beginning
of time," said Dr. Fatima Stanford, an
obesity medicine physician at
Massachusetts General Hospital and
Harvard Medical School in Boston
A
popular dieting trend
today is less about calorie
counting or carbs and less
about what is being eaten.
Rather, it is about when.
Intermittent fasting – eating only
between certain hours of the day, or
some days much less than others – may
or may not be the new Atkins diet, but