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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Louise Pyne

Eat cake, lose weight? Why you only need to diet for three days a week

Intermittent fasting has become so normal it’s almost expected that people eschew breakfast these days. From social media wellness influencers, to celebrities and renowned British health experts like Tim Spector and the late Michael Mosley, intermittent fasting is often touted as the holy grail of diets. But there’s a new way of doing it, which is easier to follow and thus more likely to be sustainable over the long term, fans of the method say. Here’s what you need to know.

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