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Intermittent Fasting Without Counting Calories for Weight Loss

We found that participants who engaged in time-restricted eating ate 425 fewer calories per day than the control group and lost about 10 more pounds than the control group after one year

WeightControl.com Interview with:
Krista Varady, PhD
Professor, Kinesiology and Nutrition
University of Illinois, Chicago

WeightControl.com:  What is the background for this study? 

Response: Obesity is a major health issue. Many traditional weight loss diets involve counting calories, which can be cumbersome and difficult to do well. Time-restricted eating, without calorie counting, has become a popular weight loss strategy because it is simple to do. Whether it’s effective in producing weight loss, especially beyond the short term, is unclear.

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Intermittent Fasting Plus Exercise Can Reduce Help Decrease Liver Fat

Fatty liver disease puts people at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

WeightControl.com Interview with:
Krista Varady, PhD
Professor of Nutrition
Dept Kinesiology and Nutrition
University of Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, 60612
Instagram: @DrKristaVarady

WeightControl.com:  What is the background for this study? 

Response: We noticed that the main lifestyle therapy for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) was combining daily calorie restriction with aerobic exercise. We were curious if intermittent fasting combined with aerobic exercise would produce the same reductions in liver fat.

So we designed a randomized controlled trial in 80 adults with obesity and NAFLD, with four intervention groups:

1) An alternate day fasting group that consumed 500 calories on the “fast day”, alternated with a free eating “feast day”;

2) Exercise group that participated in five supervised 60 min sessions per week, using elliptical machines and treadmills;

3) Combination of the fasting and exercise interventions;

4) No intervention control group. We measured liver fat using MRI before and after the 3-month intervention.

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