Research

Macro partitioning

Time-Restricted Eating (TRE), defined as restricting daily energy intake to a window of ≤10 hours, reduces obesity, inflammation, and insulin resistance in humans independent of caloric restriction.

To try Time-Restricted Eating, compress your daily eating into a 10-hour window, such as 10 AM to 8 PM. You do not need to count calories or change what you eat, just when you eat it. Ensure your last meal is finished by 8 PM. This strategy has been shown to improve insulin resistance and reduce inflammation in adults, independent of how much total food is consumed.

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Reducing the time window for energy intake from 12 to 14 to ≤8–10 hours/day reduces obesity, inflammation and insulin resistance in both rodent models and humans, independent of any deliberate change in total energy intake and/or food composition.
Trine Moholdt et al. · BMJ Open · 2021

Why this rating

Protocol paper citing prior human studies; specific results for this trial are pending.

Source

Isolated and combined effects of high-intensity interval training and time-restricted eating on glycaemic control in reproductive-aged women with overweight or obesity: study protocol for a four-armed randomised controlled trial

Trine Moholdt et al. · BMJ Open · 2021

DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040020

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