Fasting diets ‘overrated’

FASHIONABLE fasting is no better than watching calories, scientists claim.

“Starvation” diets such as the 5:2 regime used by the likes of Beyonce and ex-Chancellor George Osborne, suggest eating normally some days and much less on others.

German scientists who compared them with conventional diets found both promote good health.

But Dr Tilman Kuhn of German Cancer Research Centre said it was not the method that matters but to “follow through with it”.