A new study claims that eating in an eight-hour window each day could more than double your risk of dying from heart disease.

That's a headline designed to stop you in your tracks, especially if you've been experimenting with intermittent fasting.

But what does this study really show, and should it change the way you eat?

Music study really show, and should it change the way you eat? Hello, I'm Monica Reinagle, and you're listening to the Nutrition Diva podcast,

a show where we take a closer look at nutrition news, research, and trends, so that you can make

more informed decisions about what

and when you eat. A recent study on intermittent fasting has been getting a lot of attention.

The fasting technique known as TRE, time restricted eating, which basically means restricting

all your food intake to a relatively short

window of time each day, remains very popular with both researchers and the general public as a tool

for weight loss and weight maintenance, but also as a strategy for managing blood sugar,

slowing the aging process, and much more.

And this new analysis has thrown some cold water on all of that enthusiasm.

It found that people who observed an eight-hour eating window each day had a significantly

higher risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. I've already heard from

several listeners asking for my thoughts on this new study. So let's take a closer look at what this

study actually found and what it might mean for you if you are someone who has adopted or is

thinking about trying this approach.

So the researchers looked at about 20,000 American adults and divided them into groups

according to how long their reported eating window was. That is, the time between their

first and their last meals of the day. And they found that those who

reported a very short eating window, less than eight hours between their first and their last

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