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The medical establishment took on fats as problematic in the 1960s, with the result that food manufacturers switched to sugars and refined carbs instead, and the obesity epidemic ensued. Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary says obesity is just one result, …

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Cutting short the number of hours during the day when you consume food seems like it should result in weight loss, but that didn’t pan out in a recent study by Nisa Maruthur and colleagues at Johns Hopkins, where so …

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Simply restricting eating to fewer hours during the day won’t result in weight loss for many, a Johns Hopkins study by Nisa Maruthur, an internal medicine expert, and colleagues has shown. Maruthur says when she’s counseling people on weight loss …

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Fiber comprising a lot of an overall healthy diet may have resulted in weight loss for two groups of people in a recent study- those who ate only during a shortened period while they were awake, so-called time restricted eating …

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Is there any benefit at all to time restricted eating, or TRE, for losing weight when compared to a usual eating pattern? That’s the question addressed in a recent Johns Hopkins study headed by Nisa Maruthur, a primary care expert, …

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If you’re thinking of using time restricted eating, where you only consume food for a shortened part of your waking hours, for weight loss, results of a new study from Johns Hopkins may inform. Nisa Maruthur, a primary care physician, …

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Time restricted eating, or TRE, seems like it might help people lose weight, many studies in animal models suggested. So Nisa Maruthur, an internal medicine expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues designed a study to assess this strategy in people. …

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