RCT: Time-restricted eating doesn't work

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Eddy Edson

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NYT piece on the study: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/well/eat/a-potential-downside-of-intermittent-fasting.html


Intermittent fasting is a trendy weight loss strategy. But a new study found that a popular form of intermittent fasting called time-restricted eating produced minimal weight loss and one potential downside: muscle loss.
The new research, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, is one of the most rigorous studies to examine time-restricted eating, which involves fasting for 12 or more hours a day. Many followers of the diet, which has been popularized in best-selling diet books and touted by celebrities, routinely skip breakfast and eat all their meals between roughly noon and 8 p.m., resulting in a daily 16-hour fast.
Research over the years has suggested that the practice spurs weight loss and improves metabolic health, although much of the data has come from animal experiments or small studies of relatively short duration in humans. Experts say the diet works because it allows people the freedom to eat what they want so long as they do it in a narrow window of time, which leads them to consume fewer calories over all.
But the new research found that overweight adults who were assigned to routinely fast for 16 hours daily, eating all their meals between noon and 8 p.m., popularly known as the 16:8 diet, gained almost no benefit from it. Over the course of the three-month study, they lost an average of just two to three and a half pounds — only slightly more than a control group — and most of the weight they shed was not body fat but “lean mass,” which includes muscle.
While it is normal to lose some muscle during weight loss, the fasting group lost more than expected.
 
I'm reading Breakfast Is A Dangerous Meal. I have come to the conclusion that all scientists are nuts. I can't be bothered to click the links. If something appeals and sounds right then try it and if it works for you go for it imho. I like the idea of fasting, seems right to me. Plus you feel saintly, that's why them monks used to do it and it's very addictive. I could do with being addicted to not eating. 🙂
 
Ditto said:
I'm reading Breakfast Is A Dangerous Meal. I have come to the conclusion that all scientists are nuts. I can't be bothered to click the links. If something appeals and sounds right then try it and if it works for you go for it imho. I like the idea of fasting, seems right to me. Plus you feel saintly, that's why them monks used to do it and it's very addictive. I could do with being addicted to not eating. 🙂
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What I have learnt from been on here from it's early days, different strokes work for different folks.
 
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I'm reading Breakfast Is A Dangerous Meal. I have come to the conclusion that all scientists are nuts.
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Seriously, breakfast dangerous, damn right there's some nut jobs about.

Surely everyone fasts for period of time, overnight being example, why first meal of day is called breakfast. Last ate 6 last night & had first meal today at 7, so there's 13 hours.

Same as folk who say eat just one meal a day, couldn't possibly get all nutrient body needs in one meal, body needs fuelled at regular intervals.
 
nonethewiser said:
Seriously, breakfast dangerous, damn right there's some nut jobs about.

Surely everyone fasts for period of time, overnight being example, why first meal of day is called breakfast. Last ate 6 last night & had first meal today at 7, so there's 13 hours.

Same as folk who say eat just one meal a day, couldn't possibly get all nutrient body needs in one meal, body needs fuelled at regular intervals.
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I did not read this article but it was been discussed on Good Morning Britain , and they did say it was useful for blood pressure and Insulin Resistance.
 
grovesy said:
I did not read this article but it was been discussed on Good Morning Britain , and they did say it was useful for blood pressure and Insulin Resistance.
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Few dodgy ideas get discussed on breakfast tv, never work for me, like my food specially breakfast, always ready for it.
 
nonethewiser said:
Few dodgy ideas get discussed on breakfast tv, never work for me, like my food specially breakfast, always ready for it.
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I am like you though by the sound of eat about 6 in the evening then, have breakfast between 7-8.
 
grovesy said:
I did not read this article but it was been discussed on Good Morning Britain , and they did say it was useful for blood pressure and Insulin Resistance.
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To prevent, or to promote? 😱🙄:D
 
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I'm reading Breakfast Is A Dangerous Meal. I have come to the conclusion that all scientists are nuts. I can't be bothered to click the links. If something appeals and sounds right then try it and if it works for you go for it imho. I like the idea of fasting, seems right to me. Plus you feel saintly, that's why them monks used to do it and it's very addictive. I could do with being addicted to not eating. 🙂
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Whatever makes you feel saintly - go for it!

Fortunately for me, I get it from drinking coffee 🙂
 
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