Time-restricted eating more effective for weight loss if early in day

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Scientists from the University of Alabama at Birmingham found that time-restricted eating by eating early in the day is more effective for weight loss at 14 weeks than eating over a period of 12 or more hours daily.

In the study, the team examined whether early time-restricted eating is more effective than eating over a period of 12 or more hours in a 14-week period.

Participants were aged 25 to 75 years with obesity and received weight-loss treatment.

Ninety participants were assigned to early time-restricted eating plus energy restriction (eight-hour eating window from 7:00 to 15:00) or control eating plus ER.

The researchers found that the early time-restricted eating + eight-hour intervention was more effective for weight loss (−2.3 kg) but did not affect body fat or the ratio of fat loss to weight loss.

The effects of early time-restricted eating + eight-hour intervention were equivalent to an additional 214-kcal/day reduction in calorie intake.

The team also found improvements in diastolic blood pressure (−4 mm Hg) and mood disturbances, including fatigue-inertia, vigor-activity, and depression-dejection for the early time-restricted eating + eight-hour intervention.

Between the groups, all other cardiometabolic risk factors, food intake, physical activity, and sleep outcomes were similar.

Early time-restricted eating + eight-hour was more effective for losing body fat and trunk fat than the control group in a secondary analysis of 59 completers.

The team says the early time-restricted eating intervention may therefore be an effective treatment for both obesity and high blood pressure.

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The research was published in JAMA Internal Medicine and conducted by Humaira Jamshed et al.

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