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Overall the body is pretty good at nutrient partitioning and maintaining a caloric balance. There may be small statistically different outcomes for practicing
by wdewind 9y ago
Overall the body is pretty good at nutrient partitioning and maintaining a caloric balance. There may be small statistically different outcomes for practicing stuff like IF, but there aren't clinically different outcomes outside of using IF to maintain compliance to a diet.
If IF helps you maintain your ability to comply to the diet you want, great, but there's absolutely no evidence for it being superior than the same diet spread over the day, and there a few ways in which it's probably suboptimal, like building muscle (although again not hugely so, so compliance probably trumps the small advantage you get).
- jraby3 9y agoWhat about in controlling insulin resistance? I thought the data was pretty strong in favor of IF helping significantly.
- wdewind 9y agoIt's not. The same amount of glycemic load consumed all at once or over time throughout the day will not have a significant effect on insulin resistance. Not being able to eat as much because you are constrained to an 8 hour window will cause your overall glycemic load to go down.