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Time-Restricted Feeding (TRF) restricts food intake to a specific window (e.g., 12 hours) and serves as an effective countermeasure to prevent obesity induced by circadian misalignment (shift work/jet lag) and high-fat diets.
Try eating all your meals within a 10-12 hour window each day (e.g., 8am to 8pm). This simple timing change can improve weight loss and metabolic health, especially if you work shifts or have erratic schedules, without needing to count calories.
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Emerging evidence suggests that novel countermeasures, such as manipulations of the timing of food intake, may be effective strategies in the prevention of obesity.
Why this rating
Supported by mouse models and human observational/interventional studies cited in the review.
Source
Disturbances of sleep and circadian rhythms: novel risk factors for obesity
Josiane L. Broussard et al. · Current Opinion in Endocrinology Diabetes and Obesity · 2016
DOI 10.1097/med.0000000000000276
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