Fasting is helpful: abstaining from food on a regular basis can prevent disease and lengthen life

In recent weeks many newspapers and television programs have spoken, often improperly, of intermittent fasting. Since it seems that everything started from a sentence in my last book in which I tell that I practice a form of fasting regularly, I think it is necessary at this point that I delve into the subject and provide the scientific basis of this practice which receives so much acclaim and dissents.

Fasting has always been present in the life of human beings, out of necessity or for…