The study is small and imperfect but offers more data on how time-restricted diets work.
Intermittent fasting, aka time-restricted eating, can help people lose weight—but the reason why may not be complicated hypotheses about changes from fasting metabolism or diurnal circadian rhythms. It may just be because restricting eating time means people eat fewer calories overall.
The reasons are often much more simple than we make them out to be.
I enjoy intermittent fasting not so much for weight loss, but because of how I feel especially during my initial waking hours. I have more mental clarity and drive to get things done when prolonging my fast post waking, so I usually do as much work as I can get done in the morning before breaking my fast around noon.
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