590 - The Problem with Intermittent Fasting

Nutrition Diva

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Health & Fitness, Education, Arts, Nutrition, Food

4.3 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

New research suggests that the most popular form of intermittent fasting (restricting daily food intake to a 6- or 8-hour window) doesn't increase weight loss but does increase muscle loss. Read the transcript. Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows. Subscribe to the newsletter for regular updates. Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Links: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/health-fitness/weight-loss/problem-intermittent-fasting https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/subscribe https://www.facebook.com/QDTNutrition/ https://twitter.com/NutritionDiva

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Nutrition Diva Podcast. I'm your host Monica Reinagal.
0:09.0	The Nutrition World was rocked last week by the publication of a new study which
0:14.8	concluded that intermittent fasting is not very effective for weight loss.
0:20.3	What's worse, the results suggested that it may exacerbate the loss of lean muscle tissue.
0:26.4	Intermittent fasting has been a topic of intense public fascination for several years now.
0:32.1	You know, I give workshops and lectures and interviews on a wide
0:35.6	variety of nutrition topics to a lot of different kinds of audiences, physicians
0:41.0	nutrition and fitness professionals, senior citizens, college students, parents, and the popular
0:46.1	media.
0:47.2	And no matter what I'm talking about or who I'm talking to, the minute we open up the floor or the phone lines, we inevitably get questions
0:55.8	about intermittent fasting. Is it effective? Is it safe? What does the research say?
1:01.9	So it was not surprising that this study caused such a splash.
1:05.9	Despite the breathless headlines, though,
1:08.2	this latest study didn't actually change
1:10.8	what we already knew about intermittent fasting and weight loss and the new finding
1:16.0	on muscle loss confirmed a suspicion or a concern that many had already raised.
1:20.9	The allure of intermittent fasting is totally understandable. The premise is that we don't actually have to change what we eat or even how much we eat, we can lose weight simply by changing when we eat it.
1:34.0	There are a few different ways that intermittent fasting can be practiced.
1:38.5	One of the most popular protocols,
1:40.5	and the one that was used in this latest study is a restricted eating window.
1:46.0	Instead of spreading your daily meals over the course of 12 or 14 hours,
1:50.0	you shorten that eating window to 8 or 10 hours.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Macmillan Holdings, LLC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Macmillan Holdings, LLC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.