Fast Percent

Fasting type diets are popular in helping severely overweight people reduce weight to a healthy level and as a fad diet for quick weight loss. The problem is that these type of "starvation diets" can require a daily calorie reduction of 15 to 40 percent, which makes sticking to the diet hard for many.

An Alternate and More Effective Fasting Diet

By eating normally on one day and eating a carefully planned low calorie diet on an alternate day, researchers showed that sustained, doable, and healthy weight loss is the result. University of Illinois at Chicago researchers found that alternate-day fasting can be more doable and effective than traditional other weight loss diets. The findings appear in the November 1 issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.