Posted on 11/19/2023 9:07:08 AM PST by ConservativeMind
Eating in a ten-hour window is associated with higher energy and mood and lower hunger levels, results from the largest UK community science study of its kind shows.
Intermittent fasting (IF), or restricting your food consumption to a set window, is a popular weight loss regime. A ten-hour window means limiting your daily eating schedule to ten hours and fasting for the remaining 14 hours. For example, if you eat your first bite at 9am, you must eat your last bite by 7pm.
Despite some IF advocates commonly promoting restrictive eating windows as low as six hours, findings detailed in the abstract show even eating within a less restrictive window of ten hours still has positive health benefits, such as changes in mood, energy and hunger.
Those who were consistent with their eating window had greater benefits than those who varied their eating window day to day.
Dr. Sarah Berry said, "This is the largest study outside of a tightly controlled clinic to show that intermittent fasting can improve your health in a real world setting. What's really exciting is that the findings show that you don't have to be very restrictive to see positive results: a ten-hour eating window, which was manageable for most people."
37,545 people on the ZOE Health app completed the core intervention period of three weeks. Participants were asked to eat as they normally would for the first week and then to adhere to a ten-hour eating window for two weeks.
More than 36,231 participants opted for additional weeks, and 27,371 users were classified as highly engaged. Highly engaged participants were 78% female, with a mean age of 60 and a BMI of 25.6.
Participants with a longer eating window before the intervention saw an even greater benefit to their health.
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Try on otc med like sominex
If you haven't already, try a Super B Complex vitamin pill before bed.
Also, never watch TV in bed before sleep.
Fixed it!
Regards,
I didn’t snore much, but, before I would wake up, I’d actually dream I was running and could not catch my breath. I’d wake up with a pounding heart and completely out of breath. I finally saw the sleep doc and the tests showed pretty severe sleep apnea. At the time, I’d never even heard of it!
Oxygen deprivation during sleep is a serious problem and causes all sorts of problems including stroke and heart attack.
Sorry!
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It’s the opposite of what you are saying.
Fasting makes you less hungry.
Guess it’s not so obvious.
Trazadone, it is prescription but will do the job and with none of the bizarre side effects of the Z drugs.
You are obviously very "on the ball."
Point is that "by..." is useless without the addition of "at the latest" or "at the earliest."
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I seem to do that naturally, with no effort but am not exceptional on metrics like BMI or sleep quality (although the latter has improved immensely with trazadone).
Getting people ready for the food shortages.
Try drinking 4oz of Tart Cherry Juice about half and hour to an hour before bedtime. It’s helped me tremendously. I drink the type “not from concentrate”. It’s kind of sour tasting but easy to get used to. It costs about $4.99 for 32 ounces. I get it from Walmart.
Is somebody really claiming that going without food makes a person hungry. smh
It’s the opposite.
I’ve had sleep problems since I hit my 70’s. Three things have helped some. 1. Exercise (I walk, jog a little and lift a few weights. Every other month I do 3000-4000 pushups, at about 100-150 a day.) 2. I Follow my sleep patterns nightly with a fitbit. Just observing later what happens during sleep seems to help as well as telling to me that I should stop looking at the computer earlier and go to bed earlier. 3. Meditation helps but I’ve been failing to do that lately.
You are on the right track, congrats.
I do this pretty regularly. Works well and doesn’t seem hard at all.
Thanks Saxxon- my folks are unable to exercise much- gettign up there in age- but they can do a little- so i will suggest that
my dad takes that- been on it for awhile for not sleeping- it does help a bit- but not enough for him
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