Intermittent Fasting and Weight Loss: What 50 Studies Show
What does the research actually say about intermittent fasting for weight loss? Here's what 50+ studies reveal about how fasting burns fat.
Most diets promise results but few have the volume of research behind them that intermittent fasting does. Over the past two decades, hundreds of clinical trials, meta-analyses, and mechanistic studies have examined what happens to body weight when people restrict their eating window. The findings are more nuanced than the headlines suggest — and more encouraging. Intermittent fasting produces meaningful weight loss in the majority of people who practice it consistently. A 2020 meta-analysis published in Obesity Reviews pooled data…
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