Navratri fasting, a blend of devotion and discipline, sees millions abstaining from food for nine days. While short fasts offer metabolic benefits, prolonged water-only fasts pose risks like ...

Intermittent fasting may cause temporary gastrointestinal issues like bloating, gas, and constipation due to changes in digestion and the gut microbiome. Breaking a fast with smaller portions of ...

Here’s a question from one of our Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation colleagues: One of my friends recently told me they had been fasting for four days, water only, and had read about the many ...

Intermittent fasting — which involves restricting when you eat, most commonly consuming food within an eight-hour window and fasting for the other 16 hours — is all the rage these days, with celeb ...

From time-restricted eating to alternate-day fasting, one-meal-a-day fasting, and extended fasts, there are many forms of intermittent fasting (IF) that have been popularized in recent years. More ...

A recent review provides an in-depth synthesis of the existing literature on long-term fasting (≥48 hours) and its effects on inflammatory biomarkers, including C-reactive protein (CRP), tumor ...

I was never an athletic kid, and that continued through most of my 20s. That is, until I decided to change things up, drop some weight, and focus more on my health. Intermittent fasting was a big part ...

Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar is here, and will include a day of fasting, prayer and repentance.