Complete Guide To Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting

Jimmy Moore · Jason Fung

Oct 2016 · Victory Belt Publishing

About this ebook

The ultimate resource on intermittent fasting, the incredibly effective therapeutic approach to feeling better and losing weight that produces life-changing results.

Whether you’re new to intermittent fasting or you want to fine-tune your fasting plan, this is the intermittent fasting manual to help you build the right fasting program for the best results. Whether your goal is to lose weight, improve your body’s insulin response, sharpen your mental faculties, turn down depression or anxiety, or slow the aging process, The Complete Guide to Fasting is the best companion for your journey.
 
Here you’ll find everything you need to get you through your first fast, including a 7-Day Kick-Start Fasting Plan and 20 healing recipes. Get the guidance you need to make intermittent fasting work for you! 
 
You will learn:
• How intermittent fasting works, and how you can successfully combine it with diets and eating preferences such as keto, low carb and low sugar
• How intermittent fasting amplifies weight loss and improves many other health conditions, such as pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, hypertension and heart health
• Which fluids are allowed and can even aid fasting, and which will break your fast
• What should you expect when you start fasting, and how to avoid potential negative effects
• How to manage hunger and create the right mindset
• What are the different fasting types and protocols, including 16:8, 20:4, alternate day fasting, and other extended fast

Forget about starving yourself or diets with complicated rules—intermittent fasting has never been easier!

Ratings and reviews

This book is exceptionally written. It's accessible to people from all types of backgrounds, non-judgmental, based in science, and provides anecdotal as well as testimonial experiences to help ground the theories discussed. There are a few recipes to help illustrate some of the meals, and there are references if you are interested in the original scientific study being quoted. I would definitely recommend this to anyone considering fasting.

Excellent guide for fasting. Contains interesting recipes and extensive reference lists at the end of each chapter for further reading.

Loved how in detail it was and explained everything clearly. The bonus recipes were awesome!

About the author

Dr. Jason Fung earned his medical degree at the University of Toronto, where he also completed his internal medicine residency before heading to UCLA for a fellowship in nephrology (a branch of medicine concerned with the kidneys). He currently practices as a kidney specialist in Toronto. During the course of treating thousands of patients, it became clear to Dr. Fung that the epidemic of type 2 diabetes and obesity was getting worse. The prevailing dietary recommendations for reducing dietary fat and calories were clearly ineffective. In response, he founded the Intensive Dietary Management program (intensivedietarymanagement.com) to provide a unique treatment focus for type 2 diabetes and obesity that promotes simple yet effective dietary changes rather than focusing on medications.