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Renewed interest in fasting regimens is evidenced by a plethora of popular press
publications and diet recommendations. For example, in 2013, Mosley and Spencer
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published a best-selling book titled The Fast Diet, which touts the benefits of restricting energy intake severely for 2 days a week
while eating normally the rest of the week. Dozens of books promote various fasting
dietary patterns and the web offers hundreds of fasting-related sites. However, scientific
evidence for the health benefits of intermittent fasting in human beings is often
extrapolated from animal studies, based on observational data on religious fasting
(particularly Ramadan), or derived from experimental studies with modest sample sizes.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Published online: April 06, 2015
Footnotes
This article was written by Ruth E. Patterson, PhD, professor, associate director, Population Sciences, and program leader, Cancer Prevention; Gail A. Laughlin, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology; Andrea Z. LaCroix, PhD, professor and chief of epidemiology; Sheri J. Hartman, PhD, assistant professor; Loki Natarajan, PhD, professor; Carolyn M. Senger, MD, associate physician; María Elena Martínez, PhD, professor and program leader, Reducing Cancer Disparities; and Adriana Villaseñor, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, all at Moores UCSD Cancer Center and Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla; Dorothy D. Sears, PhD, associate professor of medicine, Moores UCSD Cancer Center and Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla; Catherine R. Marinac, doctoral candidate, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, and Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA; and Linda C. Gallo, PhD, professor, Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.
STATEMENT OF POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
FUNDING/SUPPORT This work was supported (in part) by the National Cancer Institute Centers for Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer (grant no. 1U54CA155435-01) and the National Cancer Institute, Comprehensive Partnerships to Advance Cancer Health Equity grants (nos. U54CA132384 and U54CA132379). S. J. Hartman is supported by grant no. 1K07CA181323 from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. C. Marinac is a recipient of a National Cancer Institute–sponsored Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (no. 1F31CA183125-01A1). A. Villaseñor is supported by a Diversity Research Supplement from the Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences training program, as part of the National Cancer Institute Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (no. 3U54CA155435-02S2).
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