16:8 intermittent fasting best for weight loss but not for blood pressure control

• Time-restricted eating is a type of intermittent fasting in which people consume all calories during a set time window.
• A new study compared different eating-window durations to see whether window length impacted weight loss and cardiometabolic health.
• People assigned to an 8-hour eating window lost more weight than those in the 12-hour window or control group.
• However, the team did not find that eating-window duration was consistently associated with changes in blood pressure, blood sugar, or cholesterol levels.

There are many diet plans and lifestyle changes people may consider when trying to improve their health. One dietary approach that is becoming more popular is intermittent fasting, which is going without food for a period of time.

One type of fasting is time-restricted eating (TRE). With TRE, people consume their calories during a time window and do not take in any calories outside of that.

Researchers in a new study compared different time-restricted eating window durations and examined their associations with weight loss and markers of cardiometabolic health.

The study is published in the journal Nutrition & Diabetes.