QUESTION:
I try to stay active and eat well. I’ve followed Dr Michael Mosley’s advice on intermittent fasting and time-restricted eating to improve my health. However, I recently read of research linking intermittent fasting to cardiovascular problems. What is the latest advice?
ANSWER:
Intermittent fasting is promoted as a way to lose weight, improve your heart and brain health and possibly live longer. The first problem here is that it assumes losing weight is possible and automatically improves health. Second, as Listener columnist Jane Clifton notes (April 27), preliminary research presented to the American Heart
