Scientists Find No Benefit to Time-Restricted Eating

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

Brought to you by the same people who told us cereal is healthy, smoking is good for you, bacon in the morning is the proper way to start the day, Monsanto pesticide is as safe as water, there are no chemicals in the water turning frogs gay, sugar is good for you, pasta should be a main part of your daily diet, easy to prepare processed food is god for you, etc.

It’s all a bunch of bull shit. People all across the US are having fantastic results with a one meal a day diet.

You know, then they trash a diet that is working for people. It’s bull shit.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

This is the important point

These results indicate that caloric intake restriction explained most of the beneficial effects seen with the time-restricted eating regimen,” Dr. Weiss and his colleagues concluded.

They aren't saying not to diet, just that there's no extra benefit to OMAD or IF. Like every diet that works, the underlying factor is CICO. If one meal a day or intermittent fasting work for you there's no reason to change, it just isn't necessary.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

This article, and you apparently, cannot see the forest for the trees.

The extra benefit is that several thousand people have lost weight using this method. Where as people who do calorie restriction diets often fail.

These big studies and corporate funded statistics are always pushing us to be worse, not live to our full potential.

Here, they are giving stupid fat idiots a reason to stay fat. They are calling a tried and true method for loosing weight ineffective.

And you are being pedantic with you argument. The point is that it does work. And it does have added benefits. And that many people find this diet manageable and easy.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

The extra benefit is that several thousand people have lost weight using this method.

"If one meal a day or intermittent fasting work for you there's no reason to change, it just isn't necessary."

If it works for you, do it. My wife does OMAD. It's fine. It's just not some secret weapon people have to do. And that's a good thing, OMAD isn't right for everyone.

Here, they are giving stupid fat idiots a reason to stay fat

I agree that's a problem, and I see how a fat person might look at this and use confirmation bias to justify not dieting. People are dumb. But this is actually the opposite, this is clearing away all those myths that float around in the diet world. It's all CICO. You can choose your own dieting path, but ultimately you lose weight because you eat less calories cause that's thermodynamics. Period.

More than anything, bad advice kept me fat for a long time. I thought diets didn't work after trying gimmicks and seeing no results. Being fat is a result of eating too much. That's all you need to change to lose weight.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

That over simplifies the issue.

They type of food you eat matters. And eating at a calorie deficit is much easier if you are fasting.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I liked being able to eat anything on my diet. I think it teaches proper food portions and what you should be eating. When you have to make a filling meal out of 400 or 500 calories, you can't really eat much ice cream or drink sodas. You can't fill your plate with mac and cheese. If you keep those sorts of habits, you never have to diet again. While eating anything. Without fasting. It's so much easier. I mean, past the initial weighing and measuring bullshit while you're learning. But you could force kids to do that in mandatory Home Economics classes. Weigh and log everything they eat for the school year to establish healthy habits.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Nope. You want a whole generation of people who are neurotic about food and pass that on to their kids? This, like some other things, is up to the parents to model good behavior.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Teaching kids how to eat right won't make them neurotic. Might have helped you, I know what you eat ;)

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Obviously teaching nutrition is a must, I don't think focusing on calories is the way to do it. And I certainly would not claim to have a great relationship with food, neither do you.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I eat pretty healthy food.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Okay. I’ll buy into it.

I still have only seen success on keto (no carbs) and no processed food. Plus no food till like 12.

https://youtu.be/j9xYsUPoQVs

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

It's good to fast from a mind over matter perspective.