Adherence to Time-Restricted Feeding and Impact on Abdominal Obesity in Primary Care Patients: Results of a Pilot Study in a Pre-Post Design
Kesztyüs D, Cermak P, Gulich M, Kesztyüs T
Nutrients · 105 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Controlled clinical trial (classified by our AI screen)
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- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
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Publication
- Published
- 2019-11-21 · Nutrients · vol. 11 · issue 12 · p. 2854
- Publisher
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
- Cited
- 137 citations · more than 98% of similar papers · 8.2× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 40 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Dietary Effects on Health · Circadian rhythm and melatonin · Diet and metabolism studies
- Keywords
- Abdominal obesity, Medicine, Waist, Obesity, Anthropometry, Psychological intervention, Public health, Physical therapy, Gerontology, Internal medicine, Pathology, Nursing
- MeSH
- humans, body mass index, fasting, pilot projects, patient compliance, life style, adult, middle aged, primary health care, female, male, waist circumference, obesity, abdominal, glycated hemoglobin
4 authors
From DE
- Dorothea Kesztyüs · correspondingHelmholtz-Institute Ulm
- Petra CermakHelmholtz-Institute Ulm
- Markus GulichHelmholtz-Institute Ulm
- Tibor KesztyüsUniversity of Göttingen
Abstract
The epidemic of lifestyle-dependent diseases and the failure of previous interventions to combat the main causes demand an alternative approach. Abdominal obesity is associated with most of these diseases and is a good target for therapeutic and preventive measures. Time-restricted feeding (TRF) offers a low-threshold, easy-to-implement lifestyle-modification concept with promising results from animal testing. Here, we describe a pilot study of TRF with abdominally obese participants (waist-to-height ratio, WHtR ≥0.5) in a general practitioner's office. Participants (n = 40, aged 49.1 ± 12.4, 31 females) were asked to restrict their daily eating time to 8-9 hours in order to prolong their overnight fasting period to 15-16 hours. Questionnaires, anthropometrics, and blood samples were used at baseline and at follow-up. After three months of TRF, participants had reached the fasting target, on average, on 85.5 ± 15.2% of all days recorded. Waist circumference (WC) was reduced by -5.3 ± 3.1cm (p p = 0.003). TRF may be an easily understandable and readily adoptable lifestyle change with the potential to reduce abdominal obesity and lower the risk for cardiometabolic diseases. Further well-designed studies are necessary to investigate the applicability and usefulness of TRF for public health.
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