{"id":4087,"date":"2026-02-19T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/intermittent-fasting-may-not-be-linked-to-weight-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:17:09","slug":"intermittent-fasting-may-not-be-linked-to-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/intermittent-fasting-may-not-be-linked-to-weight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Intermittent fasting may not be linked to weight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2026-02-19 16:17:07<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Intermittent fasting may not cause weight loss.<BR><br \/>\nIn the most comprehensive review to date, scientists from the Cochrane Institute \u2013 considered the \u201cgold standard\u201d for evidence-based medicine \u2013 found the fashionable eating plan was no better than traditional calorie-cutting.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers analysed 22 studies involving nearly 2,000 overweight or obese adults from Europe, North America, China, Australia and South America.<BR><br \/>\nOverall, intermittent fasters lost around three per cent of their body weight within 12 months \u2013 below the five per cent threshold doctors consider clinically meaningful.<BR><br \/>\nDr Luis Garegnani, who led the review, said: \u201cIntermittent fasting just doesn&#8217;t seem to work for overweight or obese adults trying to lose weight.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nCompared to standard dieting methods, intermittent fasting led to just 0.33 per cent more weight loss \u2013 a difference researchers said was not statistically significant.<BR><br \/>\nAnd while fasters lost 3.42 per cent more body weight than those doing nothing, experts concluded it was still no better than basic calorie restriction.<BR><br \/>\nThe findings follow a separate 2025 Harvard-led review of 99 trials involving more than 6,500 adults, which found the benefits of fasting were \u201ctrivial\u201d compared to standard diet plans.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers wrote: \u201cMinor differences were noted between some intermittent fasting diets and continuous energy restriction, with some benefit for an alternate day fasting strategy with weight loss in shorter duration trials.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nAlternate-day fasting saw people lose an average of 2.84lbs more \u2013 but that still fell short of the 4.4lb minimum considered clinically significant.<BR><br \/>\nIntermittent fasting \u2013 including the 14:10 and 5:2 plans \u2013 soared in popularity after celebrities such as actress Jennifer Aniston, 57, and actor Mark Wahlberg, 54, publicly backed it. Today, around one in 10 Americans follow the regime.<BR><br \/>\nBut Dr Eva Madrid warned: \u201cWith the current evidence available, it&#8217;s hard to make a general recommendation.<BR><br \/>\n\u201cDoctors will need to take a case-by-case approach when advising an overweight adult on losing weight.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026-02-19 16:17:07 Intermittent fasting may not cause weight loss. In the most comprehensive review to date, scientists from the Cochrane Institute \u2013 considered the \u201cgold standard\u201d for evidence-based medicine \u2013&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4089,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions\/4089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}