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The popular website The Beet has thrown down the gauntlet and declared keto as passe with Intermittent Fasting the new reigning king of diet trends. Lucy Danziger recently shared insights from Dr. Jason Fung and spotlighted Life in the Fasting Lane when discussing The Quickest Way to Lose Weight: Intermittent Fasting. Here's How to Do It Right by a Doctor Who Wrote the Book. She declares that once the book is released, the diet will become, "…the most followed diet in the country, since it's healthy, it works, and you can use it any time you need to lose weight fast." Danziger credits this as a factor as to why the diet is so popular with celebrities.

Following her interview with Dr. Fung, Danziger decided to give intermittent fasting a whirl personally and was pleased with the results.

"I ate all the foods I normally like, but in a window of about 8 hours, and fasted for the other 16. And my body shed fat, fast. I had been considering getting "cool" sculpting on my thighs (since no matter how much I work out I have always had stubborn fat pockets on my outer thighs) and just as I was making the appointment, I tried Intermittent Fasting, and low and behold, I lost fat."

According to Danziger, Google reports that intermittent fasting was the most popular diet search term in 2019, and more than 3.2 million on Instagram have used the hashtag #intermittentfasting.

Read the full article to discover why intermittent fasting is so popular.

Life in the Fasting Lane is available for pre-order through your favorite bookseller.