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.
Theres a big difference between time restricted eating and disordered eating. I wonder if the study lumps them together. An example is somone who follows the same schedule every day, breakfast at noon, dinner at 8 is doing IF. Someone who eats too much monday then compensates by only eating for four hours on Tuesday and Wednesday is more like a case of disordered eating.
Id wager with how new IF is and the fact that the impetuous to start fasting rarely comes from doctors, that a lot of people aren’t doing IF in the most healthy way. My doctor approves of it for me since we do have data showing its good for blood glucose and people at risk of diabetes.
They also said it was self reported so the person I describe easily fits into that category. Their binge days could also be during a time restricted window and it would still be disordered eating.
Theres a big difference between time restricted eating and disordered eating. I wonder if the study lumps them together. An example is somone who follows the same schedule every day, breakfast at noon, dinner at 8 is doing IF. Someone who eats too much monday then compensates by only eating for four hours on Tuesday and Wednesday is more like a case of disordered eating.
Id wager with how new IF is and the fact that the impetuous to start fasting rarely comes from doctors, that a lot of people aren’t doing IF in the most healthy way. My doctor approves of it for me since we do have data showing its good for blood glucose and people at risk of diabetes.
The link says that the study participants were 20,000 adults intermittently fasting with the 8 hour schedule.
They also said it was self reported so the person I describe easily fits into that category. Their binge days could also be during a time restricted window and it would still be disordered eating.