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Early Time-Restricted Eating (eTRE) with an 8-hour window (8 am - 4 pm) does NOT produce significantly greater weight loss than a calorie-restricted Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) in adults with obesity.
Early time-restricted eating (8 am - 4 pm) with a 600-calorie deficit did not result in significantly greater weight loss than a standard Mediterranean diet in this study. You may not see extra benefits from this specific timing strategy.
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...but not between eTRE and the control group [− 1.22 kg (− 3.07 to 0.64 kg)].
Why this rating
Randomized clinical trial, short duration.
Source
Effect of a ketogenic diet, time-restricted eating, or alternate-day fasting on weight loss in adults with obesity: a randomized clinical trial
José Ignacio Martínez‐Montoro et al. · BMC Medicine · 2025
DOI 10.1186/s12916-025-04182-z
rct · n=160Cited 5×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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