I've a couple of posts in draft that I will get up soon - an update / reflection on Dry January and some thoughts on the scheduling benefits of short workouts if your life is busy. Before that though, I am pointing to something else. However, I wanted to highlight something that is coming this weekend that I've been involved in. Amber Rogers (Gokaleo and author of Taking Up Space ) has been pulling together a bundle of books from various authors with a common theme, one that I've been pushing here recently. Keep it simple, avoid the hype, be patient, be consistent and flee the gurus. I've talked before about how we get obsessed with pushing for more and more, when enough is OK. I've given my view that so much of the health and fitness internet world is more like a gnostic religion than something that will benefit your life. There are other voices out there saying similar things and I'll be pointing to a bundle of books later this week ...
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We did not carry out a systematic review (though arguably, it would be useful for researchers to do so)."
Weak.
It'd be also interesting to find if 2x24 approximately equals daily 16/8 or 1x24 equals 2-3x 16/8.
NHSC, while perhaps the best of the "mainstream media" (if you can call it that) always has a lousy report. They tend to examine a study in isolation, as if no other studies on the subject existed, and are dismissive of anything with a sample size of less than a couple thousand, regardless of the p-value.
By their standards, this is a pretty positive review.
I'm actually surprised how much evidence they pulled together for this one!
> 500 calories isn't a fast
Well, no, but there's evidence suggesting that even alternate-day restriction is quite helpful.
Of course, I personally find compliance more difficult than with complete abstention... and that's with smart food choices. If anyone actually tries to do IF with a bowl of cornflakes in the morning, they will in fact be miserable all day, as NHSC warns.