FTA:
"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 also had an increased risk of cardiovascular death.
Compared with a standard schedule of eating across 12-16 hours per day, limiting food intake to less than 8 hours per day was not associated with living longer."
The actual data is pretty lousy… The 8 hr group has almost 30% smokers and mean 1 pt higher in BMI than the 12-16 hr group, and the forest plots cross one for all cause mortality because they only had 414 subjects in the fasting group. The fact they chose to report on this using the relative risk is also super shady
Thanks!
Are you an author? Sorry. I didn’t mean to be rude
Lol, no, I really just mean thanks for writing the informative comment.
Stupid Diet fads are still stupid diet fads
Cool ways of looking at the world are always absolute. No exceptions allowed 😎
Go shove your elitist clique up your own butt.
So fukken cool 😎
Oh look, another stupid thing my brother is into that’s bullshit.
Well… shit.
Guess I’ve got to start finding time to get a second meal in.
Or maybe don’t change your way of thinking based on a headline… or based on a non-peer-reviewed study.
„The study’s limitations included its reliance on self-reported dietary information, which may be affected by participant’s memory or recall and may not accurately assess typical eating patterns.“
This seems like a very critical limitation for such a clickbait title. Shouldn’t the exact tracking of the amount and quality of the food be a crucial part of such a study?
Yeah, I’m kinda hoping this is just an initial study to use to try and get funding for a more thorough one, and a journalist has just run with it as clickbait.
The median length of observation was seven years, with participants filling follow up questionnaires in the first year. So for the remaining 6 years we just assume that people are still following the same diet regimin?
Junk study, lots of uncontrolled factors
Likely this also included people who just don’t eat breakfast because they don’t feel like it, which probably also includes people who have a honey bun and a cigarette for lunch and McDonald’s for dinner. The results of the study also don’t match up with other studies showing a positive result on health markers.
There’s nothing magical about intermittent fasting. It won’t make you live longer, does nothing cool with your hormones, or any of that nonsense. But it is also a convenient, legitimate way for some people to reduce their overall caloric intake. Reducing caloric intake (and in turn losing fat) results in the improved health markers mentioned above.
does nothing cool with your hormones, or any of that nonsense.
There’s quite a bit of evidence that it helps with things like immune response and insulin resistance.
I can attest personally that my usual severe allergies get better (where I get my sense of smell back) when I skip lunches. Although it has to be consistent over a period of at least a few weeks for that to work.
The effect on insulin resistance is mostly due to a caloric deficit / lowering of circulating triglycerides, but I think there is a study showing a slight advantage with IF, so you’re right on that one, but it’s not really a huge difference.
Interesting about the lunches! Are you sure though that it isn’t a food intolerance you’re dealing with? Often when people cut out foods and say they feel better it’s because they’re not eating a food that bothers them.
Yes I’m sure. I’m one of the longest cared for patient by a top immunologist professor.
I can wait just about anything during breakfast and dinner. And I don’t technically fast. I have snacks here and there. And I might have an apple with a slice of cheese for “lunch” every so often. But the reduction of intake during the day makes a huge difference.
