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The article cites major caveats - 1. Cohort size of children eating after 8pm is much smaller than before - mostly because the kids are in bed by then ( they ar
by dxbydt 10y ago
The article cites major caveats -
1. Cohort size of children eating after 8pm is much smaller than before - mostly because the kids are in bed by then ( they are looking at 4-10 year olds )
2. Self reported Food Diaries are seldom accurate.
3. This study is the first of it's kind.
Supper timing is majorly correlated to weight gain, especially if most of the calories are from carbs. Simple rules like NCA5 or NCA6 ( no carbs after 5pm ) easily influence weight loss in teens & adults. I wouldn't try this hack with 4-10 year olds, but once you are in the teens, it is a nice simple body hack.
- tormeh 10y agoWell, having a period of time each day where you eat nothing should mean less calories eaten because of boredom or similar regardless of when that is.
- dpark 10y ago>Supper timing is majorly correlated to weight gain Citation? This seems anecdotal and also very likely to be entangled with other variables.
- dxbydt 10y agoIt is anecdotal insofar as the anecdotes are from my limited cohort ( few dozen subredditors who have signed up with weightgreat.com ). Also, you are right about the multicollinearity issues ( supper time predictor entangled with other predictors). But the overall effect is pretty significant. There's some preliminary material here on the models used. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13630203 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13630203 2. http://weightgreat.com/forecast.html http://weightgreat.com/forecast.html
- dpark 10y agoSo self-reporting on the internet? Yeah, I'd call that anecdotal.
- conistonwater 10y agoYou first say "Self reported Food Diaries are seldom accurate" and "This study is the first of it's kind", but you then say "Supper timing is majorly correlated to weight gain". How do you know that? Isn't there a slight contradiction there? If it was correlated, you would then expect an experiment like this to find it.
- dxbydt 10y agoYou have a point. Details - I build weight nodels related to food dairies. I have a few dozen redditors ( mostly from the loseit subreddit ) who have signed up. They send me their food dairy and weight everyday via the free WeightGreat.com service, and I then build models. From the data I have looked at, I can say supper timing is correlated to weight gain. Moreover if the supper is sourced from mostly carbs ( sugar/starch, not fiber ), weight gain is statistically significant.
- conistonwater 10y agoI think that makes your evidence significantly weaker than what was used in this study.
- matwood 10y ago> Supper timing is majorly correlated to weight gain, especially if most of the calories are from carbs Please cite study and total overall calories. I have no doubt that timing can play some minor role (just like some people have adverse reactions to certain diets), but overall calories in is going to play a much bigger role in weight than any other factor. Show me a person who is eating a calorie restricted diet, but only eating after say 8pm, and is still gaining weight. I would love to use this trick to save money on food while bulking. What timing does help with is controlling hunger and thus limiting snacking throughout the day.