
Why Intermittent Fasting May Do More Harm Than Good
Whether intermittent fasting helps anyone is unclear, but it does have known health risks. Who can try the dieting trend, and who should avoid it?
Frederik Jötten is a freelance reporter and science writer based in Frankfurt, Germany, who mainly covers life sciences. His stories have received several awards, including a Journalist Prize of the Federal Association of Children with Heart Disease in Germany and a German Society for Angiology Journalist Award. He was a columnist for the German-language periodicals Der Spiegel and Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin and has written two German-language books published by Rowohlt. He holds a Diplom degree in biology from the University of Marburg in Germany and graduated from the German School of Journalism in Munich.

Why Intermittent Fasting May Do More Harm Than Good
Whether intermittent fasting helps anyone is unclear, but it does have known health risks. Who can try the dieting trend, and who should avoid it?