What’s the Latest on Time Restricted Eating?
For people trying to lose weight, it’s been hard to miss the tantalizing headlines about the power of consuming meals earlier in the day. It’s not just what you eat, but when you eat it that matters, recent studies seemed to show. It turns out it’s not quite that simple after all.
The newest research, presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2020 this month, found obese adults who ate most of their calories by 1 p.m. for three months didn’t lose more weight than those who followed a more typical eating pattern, including eating a big meal after 5 p.m.
The results about time-restricted eating — a form of intermittent fasting — surprised even the authors, who thought they would see a difference between the two groups.
Excerpted from Today
