Research Highlights: 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 ...

As a big fan of IF, I find this really depressing.

  • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
    79·
    8 months ago

    Factors that may also play a role in health, outside of daily duration of eating and cause of death, were not included in the analysis.

    So could be that people with higher risk already had higher risk before changing their eating. Sounds likely since IF is frequently used as a diet. Limitations they mentioned also included self-reported data, which is notoriously bad when it comes to diet.

    Honestly, it sounds like it’s not a very useful study. So don’t get too depressed on account of this.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
      8·
      8 months ago

      So could be that people with higher risk already had higher risk before changing their eating. Sounds likely since IF is frequently used as a diet.

      I like this explanation.