Intermittent fasting—limiting food intake to certain periods of the day—is a weight-loss plan with possible health benefits. One kind of intermittent fasting involves eating within set time limitations.
According to recent research, a combo of time-restricted diet and exercise was somewhat more beneficial in reducing body fat percentage and fat mass than working out alone.
Published in the this analysis and systematic review examined the effects of exercise on body composition in conjunction with time-restricted feeding, a type of intermittent fasting. The results suggest that factors such as BMI, kind of exercise, age, energy consumption, or study length could not influence the conclusions drawn. For fat mass, body fat percentage, and fat-free mass results, the studies showed great degrees of inconsistency, however.
One’s health depends critically on maintaining within reasonable levels both weight and percentage of body fat. Still, further research is required to confirm and probe the findings more deeply. Not participating in the analysis, Remy Neville, MD, a board-certified internist at the Medical Î÷¹ÏÊÓƵ, New York, offered comments on the strategy.
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