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Is it really a surprise to anyone that if you restrict almost any of the variables of diet, you can make a study showing it'll lead to weightloss?

>Precisely how a time-based eating pattern staved off weight gain and illness is not fully understood

Really? It's not fully understood how, if you give less time to eat, you'll eat less? It's not like mouse-stomachs are infinitely big

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Even if the same amount is eaten, it differs depending on if it's in a time-restricted window or spread throughout the day. That is not intuitive and indeed goes counter to the prevailing advice of eating many small meals throughout the day.

Thanks for pointing that out. Still, it makes sense to me that excess input energy in the short term will leave to 'wasted' energy. Ie less calories taken in

I'm not convinced that the system wouldn't adapt over a longer time period to allow for higher throughput removing the effect

I believe the caloric intake was the same across all diets.

Yeah I missed that when reading

Thanks

> The caloric intake for all the mice was the same.

Yup. Directly from the article.

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