Could changing WHEN we eat help make us healthier? Fasting - going a set amount of time with little or no food - isn't a new idea, and intermittent fasting is growing in popularity. Recent health trends have reinvigorated fasting for our contemporary lifestyles. Diets, like the 16-8 and 5-2, promise not just weight loss, but the possibility of preventing chronic disease, with early studies showing intriguing results. But many of these studies are in animal models rather than humans - so how does fasting affect people in the real world? This program examines what is known about the health benefits of fasting.

Originally released by Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2021. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on December 30, 2022.