AKIPRESS.COM - A new study has revealed that intermittent fasting may help you live longer and improve your overall health. 

While many fad diets, such as keto, have been proven unsustainable or even, in some cases, harmful, intermittent fasting has by and large held up to scientific testing. 

Intermittent fasting diets, fall generally into two categories: daily time-restricted feeding, which narrows eating times to 6-8 hours per day, and the so-called 5:2 intermittent fasting, in which people limit themselves to one moderate-sized meal two days each week.  

According to a recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the benefits of intermittent fasting includes improvements in 'glucose regulation, blood pressure, and heart rate'.

In the study, Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist Dr Mark Mattson writes that intermittent fasting may be able to help many health conditions like obesity, diabetes, mellitus, cardiovascular disease and cancers.