Eating only during a 10-hour window improved health for those with metabolic syndrome
What if a clock did a better job than a scale at promoting weight loss, improving sleep and preventing diabetes? Time-restricted eating, by contrast, limits a person to consuming all of his or her daily calories in a relatively narrow window — say, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Practiced daily, time-restricted eating widens the period during which the body’s major visceral organs are put into a state of rest and recovery. “It’s almost like an orchestra: When all the musical instruments are in tune, and work well together, it’s a melody, not a cacophony of sounds.” For the new research, Panda and his colleagues measured what happened when 19 people were asked to do all their eating during a 10-hour window every day for 12 weeks. In the pilot study, the participants limited their “eating day” to fewer than 11 hours for 12 weeks. And in the 12 participants whose metabolic function had already veered into abnormal territory, three months of time-restricted eating appeared to bring about improvements in two key health measures: fasting glucose and hemoglobin A1c.
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