[pytonslange]

This was a post hoc analysis of self report eating patterns from pre 2018. I don’t think the respondents were following specific diets, was even IF a thing then? One could assume the 8-hour group does include a people that skip breakfast, and binge out on junk later with no plan of eating healthy.

It does not seem like the authors made even the slightest effort to control for any confounds.

[anon22981]

Not to defend the authors, but I tried out IF around 2013-2014(ish) by randomly bumping into it on the internet. So definitely a thing pre-2018!