For people who want to lose weight, fasting is not the only effective option, according to the science 🔎 Analysis by StuartJRitchie
Before even looking at the data, it’s important to say that this new study is exactly what we want to see more of in nutritional research. The normal kind of study on diet – and that includes– is an observational one: you just ask people to report whether or not they dieted and see if those who did tended to lose more weight.
As you might expect, the control group didn’t lose any weight at all. But the other results defied the researchers’ expectations: they predicted that intermittent fasting would cause more weight loss than calorie-restriction – but in fact, both groups lost just about 5 per cent of their body weight, with no statistically significant differences between them. Fasting, in other words, is just as good as calorie-counting at helping people to lose weight.
So the results might not be exactly the same as in the trial if they were applied to the general population – perhaps there’d be less weight loss overall, for instance. The scientists argued that, because the weight loss was the same in both groups, this implied that the adherence to calorie-counting was higher in reality . But that’s not the only possibility: it could be that calorie-counting is more effective than intermittent fasting – it might have shown even better results if adherence was over 61 per cent – but just more difficult.
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