2024-04-09 10:12:23
This is the study that is making a lot of noise: according to an American institute, intermittent fasting increases the risk of developing cardiovascular disorders. A doctor tempers…
While its many benefits are often presented, 16-8 intermittent fasting (i.e. 16 hours of fasting, 8 hours of food intake) is called into question by an American study conducted by the American Heart Association, one of the most major cardiologist associations in the United States, which accuse it of increasing the risks of cardiovascular disorders by 91% in the long term! Who should we believe? A doctor is tempering while awaiting further analyses…
Is intermittent fasting a health hazard?
You have certainly already seen him on Instagram, very present on social networks, the French doctor and columnist Dr Jimmy Mohamed regularly dissects medical news on social networks. Recently, he returned to a study carried out on intermittent fasting. This concluded that 16-8 intermittent fasting, the most popular form, would have negative consequences for the heart and increase the risk of cardiovascular disorders. The doctor, like other counterparts, wishes to qualify this study which contradicts all previous studies carried out on this subject.
Ses arguments
For the doctor, we should be wary of the publication of a new study which goes once morest all the other studies previously published by numerous scientists from all over the world. Several studies show that this type of diet does, in fact, improve insulin sensitivity and would also have a moderate positive impact on blood pressure. What’s more, this study, the sponsor of which is still unknown, has not yet been validated by a committee of independent scientists; it is only a press release. This is why we must remain vigilant until we can consult the study in detail as well as the way in which it was carried out. Furthermore, it does not, for the moment, reveal the diet or profile of the participants. Did they eat healthily? Did they have cardiovascular risk factors (diabetes, obesity, smoker, etc.)? The doctor therefore recommends caution while awaiting further information and ends with a fairly evocative example: “It is not because there is correlation that there is causation. Ice cream sales are correlated with drowning. Every time ice cream sales increase, there are more drownings. But, however, is ice responsible for this increase? Of course not! “.
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