Michael Mosley responds to intermittent fasting study that found diet bad for heart
dailyrecord.co.ukHealth expert Dr Michael Mosley has responded to claims that intermittent fasting, a popular weight loss method, could be harmful for your heart.
This type of eating plan, which involves having meals only during certain hours of the day, is the basis for many well-known diets, including Dr Mosley's own 5:2 and Fast 800 plans.The 16:8 diet, where you eat all your food in an eight-hour window and fast for the remaining 16 hours, has been followed by celebrities like Jennifer Aniston and Heidi Klum.
However, a study of 20,000 US adults who were on intermittent fasting, most of whom used the 16:8 schedule, found it wasn't a good long-term health choice.The author of Just One Thing was "shocked and surprised" to learn of the study, which suggests that intermittent fasting could raise heart attack risks.
He added that he found many "problems" when trying to make sense of its results.Writing for Mail Online, he said: "A review of all the best research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2019, concluded that 'intermittent fasting has broad-spectrum benefits for many health conditions, such as obesity, diabetemellitus [type 2 diabetes], cardiovascular disease, cancers, and neurologic disorders [such as dementia]'."The study, published in the American Heart Association Journal last week, discovered that those who limited their eating to eight hours a day were 91 per cent more likely to die from heart disease than those who ate over 12 or 16 hours.
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