DAILY FASTING

Limiting eating to an 8-hour daily window is a simple method to lose weight, a new study finds.  

The 12-week trial measured the effect of daily fasting (from 6pm to 10am) on body weight by asking 23 obese participants to follow this diet...

without trying to reduce their caloric intake or increase their physical activity, and comparing their outcomes to 23 controls.

Results showed that the diet was easy to adhere to and produced an average weight loss of 3kg (6.6.lbs).

Interestingly, daily fasting also decreased blood pressure. However, there was no significant effect on cholesterol.

Most of the benefits were concentrated in the first month, and probably explained by an organic caloric reduction of 300kcal per day on average.

Source: Kelsey et alia (2018)