Several studies have indicated that restricting one’s eating to a specific window of time may aid in weight loss for certain individuals. However, it’s unclear why: Does the tactic merely encourage people to eat less, or is there a benefit to spacing out meals?
Recent studies align with the former camp, indicating that timing is less important than calorie intake.Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found that when they controlled the number of calories people consumed, both time-restricted and regular eating schedules led to similar degrees of weight loss. The trial was small and randomized, and the results were published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine on Friday.
Lead author Dr. Nisa Maruthur, an associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, said, “It makes us think that people who benefit from time-restricted eating — meaning they lose weight — are probably eating fewer calories because their time window’s shorter and not something else.”
There are many different time-restricted eating plans, some of which resemble intermittent fasting—a diet in which there are alternate intervals of eating and fasting. A 10-hour eating window—which is longer than what would normally be considered intermittent fasting—was examined in the recent trial.
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