Short term fasting. Is it good for us?

I'm sure fasting intermittently is very good for some, I've listened to Dr moseley and find he is very sound on most things, however, I just can't do it - if I don't eat a little often I get real pains in my stomach and feel bad tempered and emotional, and if I let myself get too hungry and then eat I get bloating and trapped wind so I just can't do it

I think we are all different in the way we metabolise food and what for example raises blood sugar rapidly in some doesn’t in others. It’s very individual, even with identical twins, so definitely one size doesn’t fit all.
Tim Spector is interesting on this.

I could not go without breakfast. It's my favourite meal of the day. I do the fasting from about 6pm until 7am though. Didn't even realise I was fasting until I read this

The joy of intermittent fasting is that you do it to suit yourself. On Fast days I divide my 500 calories equally between lunch and supper, (12.00pm and 6.00pm) and I now have a resource of oabout 50 different recipes that will deliver those meals in an interesting fashion.

I'm just fascinated by the different approaches and methods we individuals apply for a successful and satisfactory result.

Funnily enough (!) in the Bible it says “WHEN you fast. . .”

breakfast is ' break fast' breaking the fast we had while sleeping!

I was always taught that the MOST IMPORTANT meal of the day was breakfast. When we break the overnight fast.

Over the last 12 months I have steadily, slowly lost two stone. Three meals a day, every day spread out from 7.30 am to 6.00 pm. I have just cut down on sugar in all forms. This has meant that my calories intake has fallen resulting in this careful weight loss. I have had to do this without also including exercise - (due to mobility problems).

when I get up each morning, I know that my body requires food as my last meal would have been completed by 6 pm the previous night. So, at around 7.30-8.00 am I have my porridge and large mug of tea.

I am also aware that if the body feels starved, for any reason, it can go into starvation which means that it will carefully build up fat and add weight as a precaution.

I do have a large amount of good fluid intake day and night which I require as I my body is unable to extract fluid from the foods I eat.

To go 16 hours without any nourishment is, surely, not really good for people.

Recent research has shown when you eat doesn't really matter, it is how much and what we eat that are the key factors.

You body will only build up fat if you are starved for a long time. Intermittent fasting does not give that reaction time to start before you eat again.

Intermittent starving has done my health no harm and I have now been doing it off and on for nearly 8 years. I am in my late 70s, have no health problems of any kind that require medication and am fit and well.

Ladyleftfieldlover, the same as you - I try to eat something every three hours or it's a migraine. My eldest, though, is very health conscious. He fasts most weekends and finds that it suits him.

Fasting is very good for the body but should be done in conjunction with a zero sugar, low carbohydrate and high fat way of eating to gain the most benefit. The body should also be established in this way of eating before fasting should take place. Google Dr Eric Berg and Jason Fung as well as Dr Michael Moseley.

Low carbohydrate diets make me very ill. I will continue to intermittently fast and eat a normal balanced diet.

The Aussie cricketer who just died Shane Warn had just done a three week juice diet . Be warned .

I do not think extreme diets of that nature are being discussed on this thread, so what are we being warned against?

When the body is in starvation it uses the fat stores, not builds fat