Intermittent fasting has a number of advantages, according to Olga Rozhdestvenskaya, an endocrinologist-nutritionist and a member of the American and Chinese Association of Endocrinologists.

According to her, short periods of hunger are very beneficial: they help the body to recover more easily, and also more energy appears.

“And when a person gets used to such short-term hunger, the volume of the stomach decreases, the number of servings becomes smaller, the person is not so attached to food,” the nutritionist told Life.ru.

Rozhdestvenskaya noted that many of the causes of obesity have a psychosomatic basis and it is intermittent fasting that often helps to cope with them.