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This is such a weird study. Like, who here believes that changing the time you eat changes the thermodynamics of consuming and burning calories? The thing is,
by imtringued 3y ago
This is such a weird study. Like, who here believes that changing the time you eat changes the thermodynamics of consuming and burning calories?
The thing is, intermittent fasting does not force you to do any specific diet, so by comparing it with people doing the same diet, instead of a general population attempting weight loss who are also free to attempt any random diet, you're already deep into selection bias, because you have chosen successful data points as a benchmark.
- cbhl 3y agoIf you ignore the science for a minute, the anecdotes I hear from folks is that "counting calories doesn't work" and "intermittent fasting does work". So identifying a mechanism of action would help us develop strategies to help more Americans lose weight (with associated wins for mortality, sleep health, diabetes, etc.). I have always found it surprising that intermittent fasting works at all -- I'd assume that during the eating period you'd be so hungry you would compensate by over-eating. ("I only get two meals today, so let's eat two meals' worth of food at the start and end of the eating window.") If intermittent fasting caused you to lose weight despite a higher caloric intake, that would make me reevaluate the calorie model of weight loss. This study shows that controlling for calorie intake shows the same results. That implies to me that, in part, this is a _human factors_ problem (people lying to themselves when counting) which implies we should try different kinds of interventions.
- _xerces_ 3y agoOne of the arguments was that you improve your insulin sensitivity because by limiting your feeding window, you are not constantly eating, snacking for 16 hours a day and causing multiple spikes.