Can intermittent eating make people healthy? The professor tells you about the clinical research results

Health     8:40am, 21 August 2025

Reader Ms. Xu used the website’s “Contact Me” yesterday (2020-10-31) to inquire:

There are many books and articles on the Internet about food or not eating. I admire those who don't have to eat. They don't eat, they can still be in good spirits and rejuvenate, and their bodies will automatically improve when they are sick. However, after I don't eat, I just think I'm about to die of fertility. I don't know how to practice so well without eating.

Below this article I also saw someone who stopped eating for 200 days, and they changed from 1000 degrees to 2.0 in recent days. I really want to know how these people did it. I am about 700 degrees, and I also want to see clearly through stopping eating without wearing eyeglasses. Do you know about this food? Thank you.

The online link above

opens an article published in "Alpes Mountaineering School" on June 2, 2014, with the title "21-day record of food off". I saw the author say "I specially pour my own coffee today" at the place of "Day 3" and I was not happy to continue reading.

First of all, this article is just the author's self-reasoning and self-description, and it cannot be verified at all. Next, regarding "coffee filling", I have already said in the Gerson Cancer Method published on 2016-8-28 that this is an alternative method with no scientific basis and is very dangerous. I also published the death of a ketogenic doctor on 2-18, pointing out that a doctor who is only in his 40s did so, which caused death by self-exercise of this method. So, to me, any article that advocates "coffee filling" is not worth reading.

Regarding diet or fasting, I published intermittent fasting and intermittent fasting on July 30 and August 15, 2018, respectively, and pointed out that this method does not accurately demonstrate health benefits. However, in the past two years, there have been readers, classmates, friends and classmates to ask me about my views on the meal. Especially recently, I have received several inquiries about a website called Dr Eric Berg. For example, my niece sent him a YouTube video 5 days ago, "Intra-eating changes: anti-aging, autophagy, burning fat, strengthening immunity, kidney tract inflammation, etc. Dr Eric Berg.

This website is a bone tutor, but it is no longer a waste of time. This is understandable, because the income of online red is definitely several times better than that of osteopaths. His videos are also in Chinese, so this is of course one of the sources of income. The content of his videos is like a professor, explaining the mechanisms of various diets’ impact on health on whiteboards. Because of his superb acting skills, cleverness and seemingly authoritative, it is difficult to be widely sought after. Of course, there must be many people who mistakenly think that he is a doctor and admires him.

No matter what, in addition to praising the quit, he also encourages ketogenic diet. I have published several doubtful articles about ketogenic diet, so I won’t mention them anymore. In any case, when this website explains about diet, ketogenic, or other health issues, the strategy he uses is what Cherry-picking: specializes in his favor, but doesn't mention what's bad for him. What's more serious is that in order to promote severance and ketogenic, his explanations are often distorting facts or crafting stories. If readers want to know more, they can watch a video published by a young doctor on 2019-11-12 and 2020-5-9 (scientific evidence is provided here):

“Doctor " Eric Berg | EXPOSED (Eric Berg “Doctor” | Revelation)

Dr. Eric Berg FANMAIL (funny) (Dr Eric Berg Fan letter (funny))

I'm now explaining why I decided to write this article to respond to reader Ms. Xu, but I didn't respond to such a variety of similar inquiries in the past (although I had a private reply). That's because yesterday I saw an article just published by Dr. Christopher Labos when I received Ms. Xu's email. Will intermittent fasting melt pandemic pounds? (Does the pounds of the pandemic be melted by the break?). The "pandemic" in this title refers to the new crown, and the "pounds" refers to obesity caused by fighting the epidemic at home. So basically this article is about whether a break can help with weight loss, and it concludes: "All diets that reduce weight appear to be equally effective or equally ineffective. To be sure, most diets that reduce weight will end up failing because people will give up the diet that they can't sustain for a long time. In fact, as long as you eat less, no matter which mechanism of weight reduction diet will work, and the best way to reduce weight reduction is the one that can be sustained. "

This conclusion is exactly the same as what I have published in several articles. In fact, if you cannot persist, once you stop losing weight or fasting, it will produce a reaction that is harmful to your health (please see intermittent fasting, the reaction effect). (Note: I will provide two clinical research papers published this year to prove that it is not more effective to stop eating)

Although I have not published a reply to many readers' questions before, I will ask in my private reply: "You have heard of it as a matter of responsibility" Who is healthy and long-lasting to fast or stop eating? "

I posted five days ago (2020-10-27) that my mother-in-law, a 105-year-old, and two extremes of nursery, mentioned that neither of the two elderly people deliberately adopted any special diet. On the same day, Sanli News also posted a birthday of the Qing Dynasty in Taichung, the 117th birthday of the Qing Dynasty. "This year's gold medal card heavy" was amazing. He mentioned that this person who is still very healthy at the moment, Rui did not adopt any special diet. On the other hand, who can eat a meal be as healthy as these three elderly people?

So, the flattery of breaking meals is one thing, but the fact is a completely different matter.

Below are two clinical research papers on intermittent meals published this year:

Impact of intermittent vs. continuous energy restriction on weight and cardiometabolic factors: a 12-month follow-up.

Conclusion: There is no difference in the results obtained by these two methods.

Effects of Time-Restricted Eating on Weight Loss and Other Metabolic Parameters in Women and Men With Overweight and Obesity: The TREAT Randomized Clinical Trial.

Conclusion: Time-limited diet is not more effective in reducing weight.

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