Intermittent Fasting Boosts Fat Burning and Improves Metabolic Function

Studies in mice by a Canadian research team have shown how intermittent fasting (IF) without any calorie restriction results in animals shedding fat and losing bodyweight, leads to improved glucose homeostasis, and also protects against metabolic dysfunction. The Canadian research team, led by Kyoung-Han Kim, at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, put mice on a regime of two days of unrestricted feeding followed by one day of fasting. They found that after 16 weeks the IF animals weighed