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It's clear that given the same calorie input, there is little difference.

The main benefits of intermittent fasting are not in weight loss, but:

- Give your bowels the time to run the "cleaning program" (rumbling) - Reduce inflammation

A priori I am very suspicious of any magic diet claims that bring up “inflammation”. I know that chronic inflammation seems to be a major problem among western diets, but that’s exactly why it has become this unfalsifiable catch-all explanation for anyone who wants to sell you something. The seed oil people also smoothly switched to “inflammation” once it became clear there was no correlation between seed oil intake and obesity rates.

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