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INTERMITTENT FASTING AND CORRECTLY TIMED WORKOUTS ARE KEY TO FAT LOSS, SAYS STUDY
BBC Science Focus
|June 2024
A new approach to dieting and exercise could help you lose weight and enhance your health
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A new study has not only found that time-restricted eating is most effective when combined with high-intensity exercise, but also that the timing of these two approaches could enhance their benefits.
Time-restricted diets limit when, but not what, you eat. In the study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, this counted as eating within an eight-hour window and then fasting for 16 hours. High-intensity functional training (HIFT), meanwhile, combines aerobic and resistance exercise in repeated sets.
This story is from the June 2024 edition of BBC Science Focus.
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