The Beet Raves about Intermittent Fasting and Life in the Fasting Lane

Reese Witherspoon is one of the celebrities who has extolled the virtues of intermittent Fasting. Via Wikimedia Commons CC BY SA 2.0

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.

Mark, Ellen, and Kelly are intermittent fasters; How to live to be a 100-years old

Mark Wahlberg on Instagram_ “Six months of Performance Inspired Nutrition, Aquahydrate, and F45 training!! Clean eating. Inspired to be better, team training _ life…”

Celebrity news tops the list of Fasting in the News this week. Also, the idea of living to be 100-years-old is not as crazy as it once was considered, can intermittent fasting help?

Wahlberg fixes his "leaky gut" with intermittent fasting

Wednesday, while appearing on Ellen DeGeneres's daily talk show, super-fit actor Mark Wahlberg shared he lost 10 pounds in just five days by drinking bone broth during an extended fast. Although he threw a bit of shade still at Dr. Mehmet Oz, who he has feuded with publicly over skipping breakfast while intermittent fasting, he did acknowledge that works for Dr. Oz and others. 

"I don't want to give Dr. Oz any credit, though, because you know what happened with Dr. Oz? He's like three years late," Wahlberg said. "Everybody's been doing intermittent fasting," he told Ellen. 

Viewers also learned we can add Ellen's name to the growing list of celebrities who use intermittent fasting to keep their weight in check. 

Read the full story on Today.com. 

Bunny food and intermittent fasting for Kelly Rippa

As she faces 50, Kelly Rippa remains as energetic as a bunny rabbit. Perhaps it is because she eats like one. 

According to Women's Health, Rippa primarily follows a plant-based, alkaline diet, which she eats within an 8-hour window each day. Her nutritionist Daryl Gioffre shared Rippa will occasionally eat meat, such as wild-caught fish. Otherwise, she primarily eats a moderate amount of protein and fiber-rich carbs.

"Kelly is a big fan of intermittent fasting, but Gioffre says she doesn't do it to restrict how much she eats. 'Intermittent fasting is not about eating less, it's about eating less often,' he says. 'Calorie counting goes out the window—when it's healthy food, nutritious food, you eat as much of it as you need to feel satiated.'"

Do you want to live to be 100-years-old?

Across the pond, The Guardian examines what is helping many to live longer and healthier lives. While confessing, they may not understand intermittent fasting, it works. 

"No one knows quite why intermittent fasting works. The best guess is that it has something to do with metabolic switching and cellular stress resistance causing the body to increase production of antioxidants,” according to the article.

So since the Queen of England turns 94 in April, do you think she is on the intermittent fasting bandwagon too?