Research Highlights: A study of over 20,000 adults found that those who followed an 8-hour time-restricted eating schedule, a type of intermittent fasting, had a 91% higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease. People with heart disease or cancer ...

As a big fan of IF, I find this really depressing.

  • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Hm. I am curious to see what the full study has to say. And as with any study, one isn’t usually enough; hopefully more such studies will follow.

    Regarding the short-term benefits, from the article:

    Previous research has found that time-restricted eating improves several cardiometabolic health measures, such as blood pressure, blood glucose and cholesterol levels.

    I don’t quite follow the bit about “…categorization into the different windows of time-restricted eating was determined on the basis of just two days of dietary intake.” Like, they just assumed people were doing constant IF based on looking at two days? That seems like a potential for trouble. Like, maybe the people who died fell off the bandwagon or something, idk?