Feeing In A 6-hour Window And Fasting For 18 Hours Might Help You Live Longer

( CNN) Abstaining from food for 16 to 18 hours a day could be key to treating a variety of health conditions — even if you’ve got to train yourself to push past the hunger.

The report functions as a road map of kinds for physicians to prescribe fasting as a technique of prevention or therapy for obesity, cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

Study author Mark Mattson, a prof of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, hones in on two types: Daily time-restricted feeding( eating 6-8 hours a day and fasting for 16 -1 8 hours) and 5:2 intermittent fasting( fasting two days a few weeks, usually capping a fasting day at 500 calories ).

Feeing In A 6-hour Window And Fasting For 18 Hours Might Help You Live Longer
Feeing In A 6-hour Window And Fasting For 18 Hours Might Help You Live Longer
Feeing In A 6-hour Window And Fasting For 18 Hours Might Help You Live Longer
Feeing In A 6-hour Window And Fasting For 18 Hours Might Help You Live Longer
Feeing In A 6-hour Window And Fasting For 18 Hours Might Help You Live Longer

Feeing In A 6-hour Window And Fasting For 18 Hours Might Help You Live Longer

Feeing In A 6-hour Window And Fasting For 18 Hours Might Help You Live Longer