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The intermittent fasting trend may pose risks to your heart
The Washington Post (via MSN.com) ^ | 18 March 2024 | Anahad O'Connor

Posted on 03/19/2024 9:41:29 AM PDT by zeestephen

The findings were presented Monday at an American Heart Association meeting in Chicago and focused on a popular version of intermittent fasting that involves eating all your meals in just eight hours or less...commonly known as "time-restricted" eating...People who adhered to the eight-hour eating plan had a 91 percent higher risk of dying from heart disease compared to people...who eat their food across 12 to 16 hours each day.

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KEYWORDS: heart; intermittentfasting; keto; tcoyh
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Maybe the people on the eight hour window stuff themselves with way too many calories at one time, to avoid hunger during the 16 hour fast?
1 posted on 03/19/2024 9:41:29 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

who’s afraid of fasting?


2 posted on 03/19/2024 9:43:53 AM PDT by xoxox
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Intermittent Fasting with KETO is the way to go!

Of course the Wash Compost is not in favor of intermittent fasting. Their corporate bedfellows also want you to continue feasting on added sugars, saturated fats, chemicals, flouride, aspartame, ...


3 posted on 03/19/2024 9:44:29 AM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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The compost and MSPMSNBC, so...


4 posted on 03/19/2024 9:44:46 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: zeestephen

Just one more “No! It’s not the vax that’s killing people” study.


5 posted on 03/19/2024 9:45:15 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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So much for corporations looking to help us keep healthy...


6 posted on 03/19/2024 9:45:41 AM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: zeestephen

Or maybe they don’t eat enough of the right things, to keep their heart and body over all healthy?

Especially those Seniors still trying to “eat less to lose weight” or whatever they got programmed to believe. Not only lose weight, but muscle, mess up their other nutrient balances, that then sets them up for heart or other disease.


7 posted on 03/19/2024 9:47:06 AM PDT by b4me
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Perhaps those on time-restricted eating are doing that because their health wasn’t so good to begin with. Correlation isn’t causation.


8 posted on 03/19/2024 9:49:44 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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Intermittent fasting has really helped me. I have lost weight, my cholesterol numbers improved so that I am no longer taking a statin, and my acid reflux problem has gone away completely. I eat during an 8 hour window and don’t feel hungry at other times. Intermittent fasting takes a little time to get used to but the results appear within a few weeks. Just don’t eat an entire chocolate cake during your non-fasting hours.


9 posted on 03/19/2024 9:50:20 AM PDT by BullwinkleMoose
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To: zeestephen

There is no way that study is correct.

If one is following a 16 hour fast with an 8 hour eating window of WHOLE foods, there’s just no way one is harming the heart.

Cholesterol drops, blood sugar is better controlled, BP will drop too. My own experience impressed my doctor so much he stopped trying to push the American Heart Association DASH diet on me...that was making me continue to GAIN weight.


10 posted on 03/19/2024 9:51:30 AM PDT by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
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Part of the reason people go onto a intermittent fasting regimen is to mitigate or even reverse the effects of chronic heart disease and related health issues such as diabetes

This could be skewing the stats

The study metrics may be skewed by looking at a cohort of fasting people trying to mitigate existing existing coranary disease by fasting and comparing them to the general public

A better metric may be to compare fasting and non fasting individuals with comparable levels of preexisting heart disease

Most studies of this type have shown that various fasting protocols have a positive impact on health of people with many forms of heart disease


11 posted on 03/19/2024 9:51:32 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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The money quote:
The study results suggest that people who practice intermittent fasting for long periods of time, particularly those with existing heart conditions or cancer, should be “extremely cautious,” said Victor Wenze Zhong, the lead author and the chair of the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in China.
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I think the headline was less than honest.


12 posted on 03/19/2024 9:52:34 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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“The study results suggest that people who practice intermittent fasting for long periods of time, particularly those with existing heart conditions or cancer, should be “extremely cautious,” said Victor Wenze Zhong, the lead author and the chair of the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in China.”


13 posted on 03/19/2024 9:53:38 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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That would be my bet. When I started IF about 15 years ago, that was my mistake -- I didn't get what the real goal of IF was in terms of calories and most explanations by net-spurts don't even go there.

IF + calorie restriction + healthier food choices resulted in, to quote my doc, "a heart like a damn bear" and lower blood pressure.
14 posted on 03/19/2024 9:55:46 AM PDT by Retrofitted
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I’ve been on a 12 hours fasting schedule for 14 years. I had reflux from eating in the evening and have not had a morsel of solid food after dinner and before breakfast since 2011. No reflux, no indigestion, and breakfast is now a meal to be enjoyed.


15 posted on 03/19/2024 9:56:12 AM PDT by anton
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I suspect that Big Pharma and their paid shills are afraid that successful life management skills such as intermittent fasting are cutting into their profit margins so they must ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK!!!

A cured patient is a customer lost.

A patient encouraged to eat garbage 24/7 is a customer for (a truncated) life with cholesterol, blood pressure and type-2 diabetes medications!

I trust NONE of these legacy health related charities. They are, in my opinion, P.R. firms for Big Pharma.


16 posted on 03/19/2024 9:59:22 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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IDK if the study was actually any good (doubt it) but certainly the article was very inadequate. For example, it does not include information about who the test subjects were and what kind of shape they were in when they started (overweight? underweight?). Undernourished people eating less, if that’s how it shook out, would have left them more undernourished, which can’t be good. And, some of the fasters may have started out obese (which was why they started fasting?), which carries its own health risks and makes a comparison to presumably healthier (thinner?) non-fasting population questionable. More importantly, nobody that I have heard recommending intermittant fasting contends that what you eat (not mentioned in the study) does not matter. In fact, it likely matters very much. Personally, I have been eating in a one-hour window each day for well over a year and seem to be healthier than ever, although of course dropping dead tomorrow can never be ruled out.


17 posted on 03/19/2024 9:59:29 AM PDT by Stingray51 ( )
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To: C210N

Stevia is my sweetener of choice.

Zevia is my Stevia sweetened soda of choice.


18 posted on 03/19/2024 10:00:39 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: zeestephen

Trying to keep you eating at all times and also *not* meat...carbs carbs carbs!!!


19 posted on 03/19/2024 10:06:48 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: xoxox

I only eat from Friday afternoon through Sunday night. I fast Sunday night through Friday afternoon.

I’m eating Keto on the weekends.


20 posted on 03/19/2024 10:07:37 AM PDT by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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