Jason Fung explains why intermittent fasting diets work
Intermittent fasting seems like it'd wreck your body if you do moderate to intense exercise. So I just fasted, and now I want to do intense cardio.... but I might run out of glycogen or blood sugar. Or I may do a set of weight lifting, but not if I can't eat protein after. So if I do intermittent fasting, I have to come up with a complex schedule to follow in order to get any performance gains.<p>The whole point of a diet is to be healthy. You don't <i>need</i> intermittent fasting to be healthy. It seems to just introduce complication for a menial improvement in a few measures of health. I'm sure they <i>work</i>, if you can actually stick to them, but there's a lot <i>simpler</i> diets that will also work.<p>Exercise three times a week. Eat lots of plants. Keep your fat, protein, and simple carb levels within reasonable limits for your age, height and sex. That's not super complicated to follow, and it can fit into basically any schedule.