Research Highlights: A study of over 20,000 adults found that those who followed an 8-hour time-restricted eating schedule, a type of intermittent fasting, had a 91% higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease. People with heart disease or cancer ...

As a big fan of IF, I find this really depressing.

  • @Lmaydev@programming.dev
    9•1 year ago

    Doesn’t matter if it’s peer reviewed. There isn’t enough data to establish causality.

    Chances are people who do those sorts of diets are already at risk. That’s the super important data points we don’t have.

    So even if their peers confirm the data is accurate and their analysis is accurate it doesn’t mean anything without further study.

    • @ArtVandelay@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      Yep, I don’t see any way they could prove statistical significance as they could not reject the null hypothesis.