Is intermittent fasting better than chronic calorie restriction? Only if you actually do it!

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In his keynote talk at Low Carb Houston, Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt recently stated that showering only gets you clean if you actually do it. He used this obvious example to highlight the trouble with studies that proclaim one method is no better than another, but then document that only a fraction of the subjects was compliant with the intervention. Thus the conclusion could be that the intervention was difficult for the subjects to maintain, but the conclusion should not be that the intervention did not work. A recent study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition falls prey to the same problem. German investigators evaluated the effects of intermittent calorie restriction, defined as 5 days per week of normal eating with 2 days at 25% of baseline calorie intake, versus chronic calorie restriction, defined as 80% reduction in daily caloric intake, versus no change in caloric consumption (control group) in 150 overweight or obese adults. After 50-weeks, they found no...
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