Scientists Find No Benefit to Time-Restricted Eating

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 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 -  (5 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 -  (4 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.