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Greater restriction of the daily eating window is positively associated with greater loss of fat mass and visceral fat in individuals practicing TRE.
Tightening your eating window further (e.g., from 10 hours to 8 hours) may yield greater fat loss benefits, provided you maintain the ad libitum approach.
ModerateQualifiesMEDIUM confidence
Greater restriction of the eating window was associated with greater loss of fat mass and visceral fat, as measured by dual x-ray absorptiometry.
Why this rating
Correlational analysis within a small RCT (n=20).
Source
Time‐Restricted Eating Effects on Body Composition and Metabolic Measures in Humans who are Overweight: A Feasibility Study
Lisa S. Chow et al. · Obesity · 2020
DOI 10.1002/oby.22756
rct · n=20Cited 349×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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