First of all, I did list off benefits and you must've missed them. I mentioned how it's a solution for obesity - when it is done properly. I also mentioned how it can slow the aging process as well. I'll link those articles again below. My guess is you only read the first bit section of the article and decided to post this comment in defence of this as I also noted research that dropped people's blood sugar levels as a result of fasting.
Helps with obesity: https://content.iospress.com/articles/nutrition-and-healthy-aging/nha170036
Slows aging process (and lists off other pros and cons):
https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/not-so-fast-pros-and-cons-of-the-newest-diet-trend
Dropped blood sugar levels:
All in all, I think you'd do well to read through the article again before you write a comment suggesting you didn't read the entire thing/refused to click on any of the links I provided. I'd suggest checking the section "How Effective Is Intermittent Fasting?" again.
The overall claim that I'm making is how IMF has been rebranded into something else entirely when it's offered to men, even though IMF is nothing new. Many women have done it, magazines continue to push it in magazines (like eat nothing but cabbage soup or some such), so why do women get shamed when they try something like this and men get a "go for it" and approving nods?
As I mentioned, it has similar themes to another popular app called Noom which is basically the same diet tropes that have been marketed towards women for decades. The only difference is Noom is one of the few to lean more on the psychology to market it towards men. It's the same kind of stuff that's been pushed for decades, just with some slight tweaks to make it different enough.
There's not really any scientific studies for those claims because there doesn't need to be any. You can see it for yourself through human behaviour.
I will agree with you that a better approach overall is to be eating when you're hungry and to avoid it when you're not. That's pretty simple since you simply need to pay attention to your body a bit more. But health is more nuanced than that. I have personal trainers who have said to me time and time again most of their client's weight loss comes from the kitchen rather than the gym. You also have personal trainers who have trained celebrities push things like stress management, sleeping, drinking enough water, and things like that rather than some other diet or that you need to go all-in at the gym. I know personal trainers aren't scientists, but if they've been in the field for over a decade and have worked with so many different clients over the years, then they're going to know some stuff.
