Is Intermittent Fasting Effective for Weight Loss?

A newly-published umbrella review synthesizes the available evidence on fasting for weight loss -- and suggests that this intervention may have favorable effects on many health outcomes.

Fasting is all the rage among biohackers and anyone looking to lose weight or improve their body composition. Even the medical community is coming to embrace fasting as a potential treatment for a wide variety of health outcomes such diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Regarding weight loss, however, the data on fasting are not quite conclusive on wheth…