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.
It’s an interesting correlation, but it’s still based on self-reported data in an epidemiological study. What were those people eating? What was their activity level? What time of day were they eating? How did their overall calorie intake compare to non-IF diets?
I didn’t read the original paper, just this linked article, but it doesn’t sound like those factors were considered. There is definitely a lot more work needed to establish a causal relationship.
These are some of the same questions I had. Maybe eating like this really does kill you but maybe it’s actually pointing at some other factors they didn’t even consider. Where did they find the study participants? Were they all overweight or obese and using IF to lose weight? Did they eat a healthy diet, or was it 8 hours a day of non-stop hamburgers and pizza? Did they exercise or were they physically active? It just sounds way too general to draw such dire conclusions. Again, maybe the time restriction is actually the problem but it doesn’t sound like there enough info here to actually determine that.
It’s an interesting correlation, but it’s still based on self-reported data in an epidemiological study. What were those people eating? What was their activity level? What time of day were they eating? How did their overall calorie intake compare to non-IF diets?
I didn’t read the original paper, just this linked article, but it doesn’t sound like those factors were considered. There is definitely a lot more work needed to establish a causal relationship.
These are some of the same questions I had. Maybe eating like this really does kill you but maybe it’s actually pointing at some other factors they didn’t even consider. Where did they find the study participants? Were they all overweight or obese and using IF to lose weight? Did they eat a healthy diet, or was it 8 hours a day of non-stop hamburgers and pizza? Did they exercise or were they physically active? It just sounds way too general to draw such dire conclusions. Again, maybe the time restriction is actually the problem but it doesn’t sound like there enough info here to actually determine that.