{"id":592956,"date":"2026-08-14T11:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T11:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/592956\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T11:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T11:12:22","slug":"have-the-benefits-of-intermittent-fasting-been-overhyped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/592956\/","title":{"rendered":"Have the benefits of intermittent fasting been overhyped?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">Recent evidence, however, has raised questions about the strength of these claims. Depending on the study, intermittent fasting may be shown to be <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/eclinm\/article\/PIIS2589-5370(24)00098-1\/fulltext\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">more effective<\/a> than other diets, or <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4ge7n3pq62o\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">less effective<\/a>. One even suggested that the <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0l6ye6xe12o\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">practice can be harmful<\/a>, increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease. The scientists don&#8217;t always agree on all the facts, says Krista Varady, a professor of nutrition at the University of Illinois at Chicago, never mind the influencers. &#8220;It&#8217;s not magic.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recent evidence, however, has raised questions about the strength of these claims. Depending on the study, intermittent fasting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-592956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}