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Why we would all benefit from feeling the odd hunger pang
research about. Despite it being nothing new (Dr Michael Mosley has been speaking about it for years), the word “fasting” seems to strike fear into people. People say to me, “Oh I could never do that, I would pass out” or “I just hate being hungry.” However, new research is now showing that fasting or simply “giving our bodies a break from food” for short windows of time is something we should all be looking into if we want to live longer, ward of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, and defend against diabetes, heart disease and cancer.Valter Longo of the University of Southern California is author of The Longevity Diet and one of the world’s leading specialists on fasting and living longer.
