FTA:
"A study of over 20,000 adults found that those who followed an 8-hour time-restricted eating schedule, a type of intermittent fasting, had a 91% higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease.
People with heart disease or cancer also had an increased risk of cardiovascular death.
Compared with a standard schedule of eating across 12-16 hours per day, limiting food intake to less than 8 hours per day was not associated with living longer."
Oh look, another stupid thing my brother is into that’s bullshit.
Stupid Diet fads are still stupid diet fads
Cool ways of looking at the world are always absolute. No exceptions allowed 😎
Go shove your elitist clique up your own butt.
So fukken cool 😎
The actual data is pretty lousy… The 8 hr group has almost 30% smokers and mean 1 pt higher in BMI than the 12-16 hr group, and the forest plots cross one for all cause mortality because they only had 414 subjects in the fasting group. The fact they chose to report on this using the relative risk is also super shady
Thanks!
Are you an author? Sorry. I didn’t mean to be rude
Lol, no, I really just mean thanks for writing the informative comment.
This came across a few days ago and the consensus was that it’s likely showing that people who look for a diet might be at higher risk of cardiovascular death.
Exactly … I know a guy who eats intermittently over 24 sometimes 48 hours. He works in a factory as a manager but gets involved in everything because he’s been there for 30 years. He’ll go to work and run around continuously to the point where he just won’t take time to eat.
Thing is, when he gets home to actually eat, he eats terribly, drinks endless beers, guzzles coffee like water and is still overweight. He has a heart condition, sleep apnea and chronic acid reflux.
It’s not how or when you eat … it’s what you eat and the amount of what you eat.
Idk if your one anecdote is enough to say “its not how or when you eat”.
Its entirely possible intermittent fasting is useful, even though your guy you know eats like shit so much to undo the potential good.
Well… shit.
Guess I’ve got to start finding time to get a second meal in.
Or maybe don’t change your way of thinking based on a headline… or based on a non-peer-reviewed study.
„The study’s limitations included its reliance on self-reported dietary information, which may be affected by participant’s memory or recall and may not accurately assess typical eating patterns.“
This seems like a very critical limitation for such a clickbait title. Shouldn’t the exact tracking of the amount and quality of the food be a crucial part of such a study?
The median length of observation was seven years, with participants filling follow up questionnaires in the first year. So for the remaining 6 years we just assume that people are still following the same diet regimin?
Yeah, I’m kinda hoping this is just an initial study to use to try and get funding for a more thorough one, and a journalist has just run with it as clickbait.
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does nothing cool with your hormones, or any of that nonsense.
There’s quite a bit of evidence that it helps with things like immune response and insulin resistance.
I can attest personally that my usual severe allergies get better (where I get my sense of smell back) when I skip lunches. Although it has to be consistent over a period of at least a few weeks for that to work.
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Yes I’m sure. I’m one of the longest cared for patient by a top immunologist professor.
I can wait just about anything during breakfast and dinner. And I don’t technically fast. I have snacks here and there. And I might have an apple with a slice of cheese for “lunch” every so often. But the reduction of intake during the day makes a huge difference.
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Why people only ate within eight hours on these selected days remains completely unclear.
If you don’t eat breakfast it’s not that hard for the rest of the eating to fall within 8 hours
Intermittent fasting works really well for people like me who tend to binge eat at night. If I can’t eat at night, that eliminates the binging.
Junk study, lots of uncontrolled factors
