A new study suggests that intermittent fasting may increase the risk of heart attack and stroke - but how sure can we be that that's really the case?
But while this finding clearly highlights a danger that needs much more thorough investigation there are a number of shortcomings which mean we shouldn’t take the findings as gospel, according to scientists not involved in the research.To begin with, the research has yet to be peer-reviewed – a process in which scientists not involved in the work scrutinise its methodology and results.
But perhaps the biggest difficulty with the study is that the researchers only looked at people’s eating habits for a total of two days and assumed they followed the same schedule for an average of eight years. “For example, we don’t know whether their eating times over those two 24-hour periods was typical of the times they usually ate. So to relate those patterns to a deliberate long-term time-restricted eating intervention seems to be going far beyond the data,” he said.It may also be that many people who conducted IF did so out of necessity rather than by design because their hours of work demanded it – and, in turn, this could bias the findings in other ways, scientists said.
People with cancer, for example, might struggle with appetite loss and therefore eat during a more restricted time period and may have a shorter life expectancy.
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