I've read a lot of good things about fasting, including the study you linked to, so I think it can be beneficial for some people. From what I read yesterday, with a plain water fast, the first 2 or 3 days are the hardest; after that your body starts "ketosis" which curbs hunger. But that sounds drastic. Maybe people who have success with fasting are more likely to write about it, than people who don't, or people who have bad results from it. Or maybe the former tend to come up higher in search results than the latter. So I don't know how much I can trust what I've read.
For RA, the studies I read about show that fasting for several days can temporarily improve symptoms, but that the symptoms come back after a typical non-vegetarian diet is resumed. Intermittent fasting (like is done for Ramadan) may temporarily help too... fasting during the daytime only would be something interesting for me to try. (If millions of people do it every Ramadan, how bad can it be? But I don't know if I could manage it myself.)
I have a history of first anorexia and then binge eating in my teens. Since my mid-twenties, my weight has been fairly constant, so I'm always a little worried that going on a diet or fasting (even intermittent) could upset that balance and trigger the binging again.
Whether mean or median (I always have a hard time remembering what median means too), there's always going to be some people who get it earlier, and some who get it later. Your mom must have been in the earlier group.
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For RA, the studies I read about show that fasting for several days can temporarily improve symptoms, but that the symptoms come back after a typical non-vegetarian diet is resumed. Intermittent fasting (like is done for Ramadan) may temporarily help too... fasting during the daytime only would be something interesting for me to try. (If millions of people do it every Ramadan, how bad can it be? But I don't know if I could manage it myself.)
I have a history of first anorexia and then binge eating in my teens. Since my mid-twenties, my weight has been fairly constant, so I'm always a little worried that going on a diet or fasting (even intermittent) could upset that balance and trigger the binging again.
Whether mean or median (I always have a hard time remembering what median means too), there's always going to be some people who get it earlier, and some who get it later. Your mom must have been in the earlier group.