Eating little or nothing: Bad or good?
Photo credit: Getty Images | Should people really fast for days as a way to lose weight? No, according to some medical experts. Fasting for a long period of time, they say, is at least an inappropriate way to diet, and possibly a dangerous one.
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There's been one mantra on dieting since day one: If you want to lose weight, don't eat as much. These days, though, there's a corollary in the world of quickie weight-loss gimmicks: If you want to lose weight, don't eat at all. And some say to keep on not eating for a day or more.
But should people really fast for days as a way to lose weight? No, according to some medical experts. Fasting...
