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From my reading it sounds like calories eaten were not controlled between the two groups? Surely the study would be much more useful if the groups consumed the
by p1necone 6y ago
From my reading it sounds like calories eaten were not controlled between the two groups? Surely the study would be much more useful if the groups consumed the same number of calories per week?
If fasting results in wanting to eat less/more it's going to be completely unsurprising for that to result in more/less weight loss respectively, any weight loss due to the fasting itself, as opposed to standard calorie restriction is going to be difficult to extract from the data without a very large sample size.
- aidenn0 6y agoI thought it was fairly well established that most (all?) diets cause weight loss by inducing a calorie deficit?
- p1necone 6y agoProponents of intermittent fasting seem to think it's more than just calorie restriction having an effect. I would think it would be useful to isolate why the treatment works. Although I can also see why a clinical trial of a treatment would need to test the treatment as it would be applied in the real world, as opposed to a modified version intended to extract the why.