What’s the Best Way to Boost the Results of Fasting?
It’s a diet trend endorsed by everyone from Hollywood A-listers to Rishi Sunak, yet intermittent fasting doesn’t work for everyone. Now scientists say they’ve found a way to boost its effects — focusing on what you eat, rather than when you eat.
Specifically, a group of US researchers discovered the diet is only effective for weight loss and stabilising blood sugar when people doing it eat fewer calories than they need. In other words, the amount of calories you consume matters more than the timing.
Obese people who stuck to a 10-hour eating window from 8am to 6pm, eating most of their calories in the morning, lost 2.3kg (5.1lbs) on average over 12 weeks. For comparison, volunteers who ate between 8am and midnight, consuming the majority of calories in the evening, lost 2.6kg (5.7lbs). Both sets of volunteers stuck to an expert-recommended diet that featured a balance of fruit and vegetables, whole grains and no junk foods, with little saturated fat.
Excerpted from the Daily Mail
