Reader Dr. Ma sent a message on his face yesterday (2022-4-22):
“Prof Lin, you’ll like this…”. What he said is an article about dietary weight loss methods. Then, why would Dr. Ma think I like this article?Dr. Ma is a long-term reader of this website of mine. He is not fat at all, but he is interested in reducing diet (probably considered healthy). He told me about 4 years ago that he was using his own diet to eat, and he would send some articles on ketogenic and quit diet at any time. But, I always gave him cold water, indicating that I never believed in any dietary skipping. I have also published many articles that doubt ketogenic and quit diets (such as the quit diets and reality).
The article sent by Dr. Ma yesterday was published two days ago on the Evernote platform. Based on the information of the author of this article, I found that the original text was published in New York on the same day, and the title was Scientists Find No Benefit to Time-Restricted Eating (scientists found that there is no benefit in limited time eating). From this title you should understand why Dr. Ma would say “Prof Lin, you’ll like this…”.
Since I mentioned the "time-limited diet method", I will just say that the clinical trial of this fat loss method was first reported at the end of 2016, and I immediately published the first fatty fat in Taiwan, and the new fat loss method introduced this new thing.
This New York Times article was published mainly in a discussion of a paper just published in the New England Journal of Medical Sciences Calorie Restriction with or without Time-Restricted Eating in Weight Loss. The conclusion of this article is that in obese patients, a time-limited diet regimen is no more beneficial in reducing weight, fat or healing risk factors than daily limiting of heat.
In fact, this conclusion doesn't make me feel strange at all. What really surprised me was that the impact factor of New England medical journals ranks among the top, and its paper rejection rate was as high as 95% (only one of the 20 articles sent for review will be published). So, can a clinical study on dietary depletion that is not related to life and death, so can this medical literature temple be accepted?
What is even more incredible is that the authors of the article are in a row of more than ten, and they are all Chinese names in Roman Pinyin. After a closer look, it turns out that most of them are members of Southern University of Medicine (in Guangzhou). Wow! It's really …….
No matter what, in fact, "scientists find that there is no good time to eat for limited time" is not new at all. I quoted a paper published on 2020-11-1, in the 2020-East and reality of the slaughter. Effects of Time-Restricted Eating on Weight Loss and Other Metabolic Parameters in Women and Men With Overweight and Obesity: The TREAT Randomized Clinical Trial (Impact of limited time diet on weight loss and other creditor parameters for men and women who are overweight and obese: TREAT random clinical trial). The conclusion of this article is: without other precautions, eating time is not more effective than eating all day.
So, from the conclusion, it can be seen that the article published in the American Medical Association journal two years ago is almost exactly the same as the article published in the New England Medical Journal two days ago. If there is any significant difference, it should be that the former only tracked 12 worships, while the latter tracked 12 months.
In fact, from its first appearance in 2016, there are now a total of 59 clinical research papers on "Time-limited Diet Methods". Among them, any study that compares "time-limited" and "unlimited time" is said that the effect of weight loss is due to the reduction of Carolina's intake, not due to the limitation of time.
So, as the end, I repeated the hype of eating and the real story in it again: "All diets that reduce weight seem to be equally effective or equally ineffective. To be sure, most diets that reduce weight end up failing because people will give up the diet that they can't sustain for a long time. In fact, as long as you eat less, no matter which mechanism of weight loss diet will work, the best way to reduce weight loss is the one that can be sustained. "
Original text: Is the latest research on dietary weight loss method effective?