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Intermittent fasting is as effective as calorie counting for weight loss, study finds

Time-restricted eating and calorie counting can both help people shed pounds, new research suggests.

FILE - This Tuesday, April 3, 2018 file photo shows a closeup of a beam scale in New York. High-dose oral versions of the medication in the weight-loss drug Wegovy may work as well as injections at paring pounds and improving health, including hard-to-treat people with diabetes, according to research released Sunday, June 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File) (Patrick Sison, Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

When Krista Varady began studying intermittent fasting two decades ago, she felt her research wasn’t taken very seriously.

“All the previous diet fads focused so much on calorie counting or low-fat diets,” she said.

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But a new study from Varady and a team of researchers, published Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, showed that limiting food intake to a specific time window was as effective as calorie counting for weight loss.

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