Benefits of time-restricted eating
- Subjects in a study reported experiencing better sleep, more energy in the mornings, and less hunger at bedtime.
- In a study of men at risk for type-2 diabetes, after one week of restricting eating to a nine-hour window, the men showed a lower spike in blood glucose after a test meal.
- In another experiment of time-restricted eating, where the subjects were on medication to lower cholesterol, after 12 weeks, they found reduced cholesterol levels of about 11 percent on average.
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