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Diet Therapy
Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent fasting has various forms, including restricting eating to certain times of the day (usually less than 10 hours, often called time-restricted feeding) or not eating for a day or longer (sometimes called alternate day fasting, for example). Intermittent fasting causes a switch from using glucose from the liver to ketones stored in fat ( References ). It has been shown to have favorable metabolic effects (eg, increased 