Intermittent fasting linked to risk of cardiovascular death [Video]

Intermittent fasting is one of the many trendy ways people try to lose or maintain their weight.Also known as time-restricted eating, the practice is a method of weight loss that confines a person’s eating window to set times — typically eight hours during 24 hours — with only clear liquids consumed during the remaining 16 hours. Other methods include two or three days of fasting during a week or month.How well does intermittent fasting work?Prior research has shown advantages to time restriction. A December 2019 review of human and animal studies found benefits to restricting calories to a shortened period of the day, including improved longevity, a reduction in blood pressure and weight loss. (However, a number of those studies were in mice and those in humans were of much shorter duration, mere months.)However, a yearlong study published in April 2022 that followed 139 Chinese adults ranging from overweight to …