Studies have it that, many people use intermittent fasting to lose or maintain their weight.
It is also known as time-restricted eating, the practice is a method of weight loss that confines a person’s eating window to set times — typically eight hours during 24 hours — with only clear liquids consumed during the remaining 16 hours. Other methods include two or three days of fasting during a week or month.
Some benefits of intermittent fasting are; It’s increases fat loss while maintaining muscle mass, improves blood sugar control, gives your digestive system a break, and a good combination with the keto diet.
Now there is new research that shows that intermittent fasting causes heart attacks.
According to the American Heart Association, intermittent fasting could improve “cardiometabolic health measures such as blood pressure, blood glucose and cholesterol levels.”
“We were surprised,” Zhong said. “Our research clearly shows that, compared with a typical eating time range of 12-16 hours per day, a shorter eating duration was not associated with living longer.”
The most critical piece to this discovery, though, is the increased risk for those already living with heart conditions or cancer.
“Our study’s findings encourage a more cautious, personalized approach to dietary recommendations, ensuring that they are aligned with an individual’s health status and the latest scientific evidence,” said Christopher Gardner, director of nutrition studies at Stanford University.
Gardner noted that the “nutrient quality of the diets” needs to be examined. “Without this information, it cannot be determined if nutrient density might be an alternate explanation to the findings that currently focus on the window of time for eating.”
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Source: Ghanafuo.com
