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Hello and thank you for downloading the more or less podcast. We are your weekly guide to the

numbers in the news and in life and I'm Tim Harford.

There's a pretty high chance that some of you listening today have skipped breakfast

and are planning to eat all your food in an eight-hour window of gastronomic indulgence before not eating again for another

16 hours.

This is the 16-8 diet, a form of intermittent fasting or time-restricted eating, which is all the age at the moment.

Some of the more or less team have even given it a go.

So you can understand our concern when we saw headlines like this back in March this year.

Intermittent fasting raises risk of death from heart disease.

Shocking dangers of intermittent fasting diet revealed in new study.

loyal listeners emailed in to ask the obvious question, is this true?

Is daily intermittent fasting going to kill you?

Hello, I'm Donald Lloyd Jones. I'm a cardiologist and

cardiovascular epidemiologist at Northwestern University in Chicago. I am the chair of the Department of

Preventive Medicine and I am a past president of the American Heart

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