Also known as «intermittent fasting», the 5:2 Diet involves eating as you normally do five days a week and restricting your
calorie intake on remaining days to just 500
calories (2,100 kilojoules) for women and 600
calories (2,500 kilojoules) for men — well
below the average
recommendation of 2,000 a day for women.
The World Health Organization recommended less than 10 % of
calories from added sugar based on its assessment of higher consumption and adverse health outcomes.4 With the evidence of higher added sugar consumption and adverse health outcomes accumulating, the American Heart Association recommended that total
calories from added sugar should be less than 100
calories / d for most women and less than 150
calories / d for most men.5 Our analysis suggests that participants who consumed greater than or equal to 10 % but less than 25 % of
calories from added sugar, the level
below the Institute of Medicine
recommendation and above the World Health Organization / American Heart Association
recommendation, had a 30 % higher risk of CVD mortality; for those who consumed 25 % or more of
calories from added sugar, the relative risk was nearly tripled (fully adjusted HR, 2.75).