The prolific author, meditation expert and alternative medicine advocate, who also holds a professor of medicine position at three US medical schools, has been a fan of intermittent fasting for years.
Intermittent fasting is a pattern of eating where you cycle between periods of fasting and windows for eating meals, which people often put within an eight-hour period and allow their fast to run overnight.
Chopra avoids eating after 6pm and told Metro.co.uk: ‘I eat my main meal usually at lunch and then sometimes I have a little bit of fruit in the evening or yoghurt.
‘Now of course everybody’s talking about 16 hours intermittent fasting – I’ve been doing that for a long time.’
Listing the perceived benefits, he added: ‘I think it reduces inflammation, decreases incidents of diabetes and enhances longevity.’
However, he was not an advocate of actress and Goop founder Paltrow’s diet, which she recently revealed to consist largely of bone broth and vegetables.
She told Dr Will Cole on The Art of Being Wellbeing podcast that she ate dinner early in the evening and does ‘a nice intermittent fast’.
The Shakespeare in Love actress, 50, then explained that she would usually eat at midday after having coffee and ‘things that won’t spike my blood pressure’ in the morning.
‘But I really like soup for lunch. I have bone broth for lunch a lot of the days. Try to do one hour of movement, so I’ll either take a walk or I’ll do Pilates or I’ll do my Tracy Anderson,’ she added.
‘And then I dry brush and I get in the sauna. So I do my infrared sauna for 30 minutes and then for dinner I try to eat according to paleo – so lots of vegetables.’
She concluded: ‘It’s really important for me to support my detox.’
The star was subsequently criticised for promoting ‘hugely disordered eating’.
In response to her ‘wellness routine’, Chopra said: ‘I wouldn’t go that far. I think a diet [should have] maximum diversity of plant-based foods.
‘And if you’re a meat eater, [consume] organic meat, farm to table, because factory produced meat has a lot of antibiotics and hormones and pesticides, which cause inflammation.’
‘So for those who are not vegetarian, I say get food from the farm not from a factory,’ he added.
Paltrow, who later responded to the backlash by reassuring fans that she does eat ‘full meals’, has also been in the headlines for her victory in court regarding a $300,000 (£241,000) ski accident lawsuit.
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