Research Highlights: A study of over 20,000 adults found that those who followed an 8-hour time-restricted eating schedule, a type of intermittent fasting, had a 91% higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease. People with heart disease or cancer ...

As a big fan of IF, I find this really depressing.

  • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
    811·
    8 months ago

    Factors that may also play a role in health, outside of daily duration of eating and cause of death, were not included in the analysis.

    So could be that people with higher risk already had higher risk before changing their eating. Sounds likely since IF is frequently used as a diet. Limitations they mentioned also included self-reported data, which is notoriously bad when it comes to diet.

    Honestly, it sounds like it’s not a very useful study. So don’t get too depressed on account of this.

    • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
      201·
      8 months ago

      That sounds like a plausible explanation, but there’s no way to know because there’s no data. As you said, this study is kinda useless.

      • Ranvier
        61·
        8 months ago

        Not useless, this correlation was totally unexpected, they were expecting to see a benefit. It’s not definitive though, but retrospective reviews like this are important first steps even though they carry many caveats. Now this data could be used as justification for funding and grants for further prospective studies into this to better quantify risks and benefits of intermittent fasting.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
      91·
      8 months ago

      So could be that people with higher risk already had higher risk before changing their eating. Sounds likely since IF is frequently used as a diet.

      I like this explanation.