Why Daily Fasting and Not Intermittent Fasting?

Suggesting Daily Fasting as a better way to describe a Short Duration Fast

Why Not?

Daily Fasting

circadian cycle
Daily Fasting, eating in sync with the circadian cycle

Time to Rest and Recover

My Daily Fasting

Most Common Terms around Fasting

  • Intermittent Fasting: broad term used for almost any type of short duration fast below 22 hours as well as alternate day fast.
  • Alternate Day Fasting: an Intermittent Fasting approach. You fast one day, then eat the next day.
  • 5:2 Fasting: Type of IF. You eat normally for 5 days and fast or limit your calorie intake to 500 calories during 2 days.
  • IF 16:8: popular type of IF in which you fast for 16 hours and eat within a 8 hours window. Some people get slightly obsessed with this number 8. Let’s not forget, that it is just an abstract number, which likely coincide with lab’s opening hours.
  • TRE or TRF: Time Restricted Eating — or Feeding. Terms used in most research papers. It’s descriptive but “restricted” is not that positive, not talking about “feeding” that describes the feeding time for mice during experiments. TRE 14:10 means fasting for 14 hours and eating within a tine window of 10 hours.
  • early TRE: describes an eating window Early in the Day like breakfast + lunch or early dinner. It seems to be the healthiest approach of Daily Fasting, but frankly the least appealing and adopted amongst the population as it lacks of social acceptance by cutting out a popular gathering.
  • late or “social” TRE: here the eating window happens later in the day. “Social TRE” is likely the most popular approach of IF as well as a good excuse to skip breakfast. Regardless of scientific evidences, it is understandable for most people to keep their dinner as a family or social event and therefore as their main meal of the day.
  • OMAD: One Meal a DAY is another type of IF. It doesn’t specify when to eat but most people eating once a day, eat at dinner time.
  • Water Fast or Prolong Fast: indicate a Water only Fast that lasts more than 24 hours, often from 48 hours to 4 / 5 days. Longer water fasts require supervision. Some Fasts protocol are conducted in special clinics and include a vegetable bouillon (Buchinger therapeutic fasting).
  • Fast Mimicking Diet: a 5-day 800 calorie plant-based diet developed by Dr. Valter Longo to mimics the longevity and health promoting effects of a water only fast (Dr. Valter Longo webpage).
Secrets du Jeûne au Quotidien — Auteur Christophe Berg — Éditions La Plage.
Secrets du Jeûne au Quotidien — Auteur Christophe Berg — Éditions La Plage.

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Executive Coach for Everyday Heroes | Consultant on Plant-Based projects | Cookbook Author | 🗣🇫🇷🇺🇸🇪🇸