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Arsenal pair Thomas Partey and Takehiro Tomiyasu continued their returns from injury on Thursday as the Gunners were thumped 4-0 by Queens Park Rangers in a friendly.

Partey and Tomiyasu both started the behind-closed-doors clash at QPR's TSG Training Centre, with the midfielder playing over an hour and the defender coming off at half-time.

QPR fielded a relatively strong team against an Arsenal side largely made up of Under-21s players and went ahead in the 30th minute when Michael Frey nodded home the opener.

Partey was involved in plenty of attacking moves from the Gunners but the visitors were ultimately unable to prevent a routine win for the Championship side.

Tomiyasu was replaced by Elian Quesada-Thorn at half-time and Arsenal soon went two goals down as Frey doubled up.

Dixon-Bonner made it 3-0 shortly before Partey was replaced by Ismael Kabia on 64 minutes. Ziyad Larkeche completed the rout a few minutes from time.

Arsenal team: Ejeheri (Rojas, 46), Nichols (Dudziak, 64), Robinson, Foran, Tomiyasu (Quesada-Thorn, 46), Partey (Kabia, 64), Lewis-Skelly, Gower (Bandeira, 64), Cozier-Duberry (Oulad MHand, 64), Butler-Oyedeji, Kamara (Rosiak, 64)

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Another photo of a male in the womens locker room at Planet Fitness in Fairbanks has emerged on X/Twitter, adding fuel to the public relations fire that broke out across the country after the gym cancelled the membership of a Fairbanks woman who photographed the man shaving in the womens side of the facility.

In the latest photo, the man was dressing near other women. This photo was evidently taken by an anonymous member of the gym and shared with Libs of TikTok, a channel on X/Twitter that shows radical liberals as they actually are. Libs of TikTok has nearly 3 million followers.

Fairbanks conservative Patricia Silvas story was featured on Gutfeld on Fox on Wednesday evening, anchoring a segment on Vanishing Boundaries.

Greg Gutfeld, who provides sardonic commentary on the news of the day, said that boundaries that have kept us safe and happy are beginning to disappear.

First, he said, society eradicated the boundaries between male and female, between logic and irrationality, between reason and delusion. Boundaries give us meaning. Without them, were done Planet Fitness sided with the offender. They call their gyms judgment free zones, and so canceled the womans membership. Planet Fitness, yeah, more like Planet [expletive deleted].

Thats a lot of free publicity for Planet Fitness. Gutfeld averages 1.51.8 million viewers per night on his shows.

Planet Fitness stock valuation has remained wobbly this week, having lost a quick $400 million in valuation after the Silva video made the rounds on social media and in news outlets such as the Daily Mail and the New York Post. Mainstream media outlets in Alaska have remained silent.

Shares popped back in trading on Thursday morning as investors saw a buy the dip opportunity or as investment firms sought to shore up a crashing stock.

But the public relations damage continues online, as popular social media influencers have called for a boycott of Planet Fitness, which is standing by its policy of allowing men to use womens locker rooms. Its still to early to know if Planet Fitness will go the way of Bud Light, which hired a transexual male who portrays the persona of a teenage girl as the brands spokesperson.

That marketing move cost AB InBev, the parent company, and its shareholders. By August, its United States revenue had fallen 10%, as consumers stopped buying Bud Light, the company reportedreported in a statement. Revenues fell $395 million North America during the quarter, compared to the previous year. Even today, AB InBevs stock value, $59.73, is only what it was in 2012, having not recovered from the culture war it started with Dylan Mulvaney.

Wall Street Silver, an account on X/Twitter that has 1.2 million followers, posted the question, Is it time to give Planet Fitness the Bud Light treatment? #BoycottPlanetFitness. Many responding said they are canceling, but theres no data yet to back that up; the company will need to report to shareholders at its next earnings call, which has not been announced. Its latest filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission is at this link.

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Patricia Silva of Fairbanks documented an adult male using the womens dressing room at Planet Fitness in Alaska last week, and sent her proof to Libs of TikTok, a social media account that shows how radical some liberals are.

Silvas video and photographic evidence was seen by Libs of TikToks 2.9 million followers on X/Twitter, and it didnt take long for Planet Fitness to cancel her membership, because she had violated the rule.

What rule? The rule that says you cant take pictures of other members in the locker rooms.

There is no rule, evidently, for men whipping out their members while in the womens locker rooms, however. Planet Fitness says it is a judgment free zone.

In this instance, there was a young girl also in the dressing room, wrapped in a towel, while a man shaved at the sink.

The incident has led to a call for a boycott of Planet Fitness and a drop in the companys stock price on Monday.

Silva isnt the only female customer to take on the fitness company. In September, a 15-year-old girl was inside the womens locker room of Planet Fitness in Monroe, Ga., when a naked male allegedly exposed himself to her, according to the Monroe Police Department. Jakorbie Dixon of Conyers, Ga., was arrested on multiple warrants for public indecency by exposing himself in the female locker room, the police department said.

Planet Fitness has a policy about such things:

The policy says staff should work with members and employees to address this discomfort [sharing facilities with transgender members] and to foster a climate of understanding consistent with the Judgment Free character of Planet Fitness.

The statement says, Planet Fitness staff shall strive to address transgender members with names, titles, pronouns, and other terms consistent with their self-reported gender identity, if reasonably known to the Planet Fitness staff and that a transgender woman shall be referred to by her preferred name and female pronouns and a transgender man shall be referred to by his preferred name and male pronouns.

The statement says the company reserves the right to terminate a persons membership immediately for any violation of this policy.

Meanwhile, a man accused of exposing himself in February to a teenage girl in an Anchorage fitness center is still being sought by Anchorage police.

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Fitness influencer Giorgi Tzane Janelidze died on Wednesday after falling into a ravine while filming social media content in Italy.

According to Greek media outlet Ethnos, the accident took place during the 23-year-old's visit to Roghudi Vecchio, Calabria, an ancient mountain village abandoned in the 1970s due to a severe flood. While standing on a balcony without a railing, he slipped and fell into the ravine.

Despite the efforts of firefighters who rushed to the scene, they were unable to save him. Helicopters were eventually called in to retrieve his body due to the depth of the ravine. From there, his body was transported to the town of Saline Joniche, where it was handed over to authorities.

Janelidze's friend, Chris Kogias, who accompanied him on the trip, confirmed news of the death to the outlet.

Tzaneis no longer with us, Kogias, who is also a social media influencer, said. He left us yesterday afternoon during thetripwe made toItaly.Please pray with us for hissoulto rest in peace.

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Janelidze, who was born in Georgia but lived in Greece, has over 100,000 followers on Instagram. In his most recent post, he shared with his followers a video of him holding a bag of his protein powder, which he co-founded with fellowinfluencer Dream Greek.

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The most beautiful person inside and out, the biggest adventure Ive ever had with someone, Janelidzes girlfriend, Elena Margariti, wrote in a since-expired Instagram Story post, per the New York Post. With my man, my whole life.

She continued, Many dreams, a home together, through our difficulties, through our joys, and we made it, us against all odds. So unfairly, so early. I love you so much. We will meet again. My Tzitsi.

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Donald Trumps prediction that the country or, at least, the American automobile industry will experience a bloodbath if he is not returned to the presidency was excessive and crude. But over-the-top rhetoric is not new and, for more than 400 licensed medical professionals, its not the most troubling aspect of Trumps public performances.

They see evidence that the former president, at 77, is suffering from probable dementia so they have signed their names, along with hundreds of others, to an online statement asserting that grave concern.

Of course, his detractors claim President Joe Biden, at 81, is the one who shows such signs, and they continue to do so even after Bidens solid delivery of the State of the Union address. The age and fitness of both candidates is a major concern for voters.

But, under the banner of Duty To Warn, organized by Baltimore-based psychologist John Gartner, both clinicians and researchers have joined an effort to defend Biden against dementia claims and warn the nation about what they see as Trumps cognitive decline.

The media never tire of asking, Is [President Joe] Biden too old? Gartner says. Polls showed twice as many people were worried about Bidens cognitive health as Trumps, when Bidens memory lapses are within the normal limits for his age [81]. We all get more forgetful as we age. To say that makes us incompetent or too old is ageism. I would argue that Ive garnered wisdom and judgment from life experience that more than compensates for my memory blips. And I think the same could be said of Biden. Thats why I say Bidens brain is aging, but Trumps brain is dementing.

Mainstream media, says Gartner, push a false equivalency that Biden and Trump are two old men prone to mistakes, presenting equally unappealing choices. In fact, says Gartner, comparing Biden to Trump is comparing apples to rotted oranges. Biden, he notes, had a lifelong struggle with stuttering and was always known for gaffes, while Trumps verbal skills, back in his Manhattan celebrity days, were at a higher level; they are now greatly diminished.

Gartner, a psychotherapist who was an assistant professor for 28 years at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School, has found credible help sounding this alarm. The statement the other professionals signed claims Trump is showing unmistakable signs strongly suggesting dementia, based on his public behavior and informant reports.

The statement cites a decline in Trumps baseline verbal fluency. [Trump] was once highly articulate, with a sophisticated vocabulary, and spoke in polished paragraphs, the experts say. Now, his vocabulary is impoverished, he often has difficulty finishing a thought, sentence or even a word. Typical of dementia patients, he [repeats] and overuses superlatives and filler words.

Duty to Warn has 430,000 followers on X, formerly Twitter. Since last week, a post about Trumps probable dementia has had more than 1.7 million views.

In a long series of testimonials attached to the original post, doctors and other professionals cite Trumps use of incorrect words or jumbled words, suggesting a condition known as paraphasia, a common indicator of dementia. The experts note that Trump frequently makes errors he does not recognize and correct, and mixes up people across generations, mistaking a father for a grandfather.

But Trump has always rambled when he addresses MAGA rallies. So how do Gartner and the dozens of professionals he consulted discern signs of dementia?

When you are literally unable to form words and what youre saying is so incomprehensible that its impossible for someone to understand what you are saying, thats not rambling, says Gartner. Those are serious signs of dementia. If you saw them in a relative, you would run, not walk, to a specialist to get them tested and start thinking about long-term care.

The evidence for dementia in Donald Trump has become overwhelming, writes Dr. Lance Dodes, a psychiatrist and retired professor of the Harvard Medical School. Unlike normal aging, which is characterized by forgetting names or words, Trump repeatedly shows something very different: confusion about reality.

Suzanne Lachman, a New York psychologist, posted this: [Trump will] begin a sentence, and then seemingly forget how the sentence began and invent something in the middle, and then go off on a tangent that results in an incomprehensible word salad. This is behavior we observe frequently in patients who have dementia.

If this guy presented in my office with the symptoms we observe in his public appearances, Id refer him at once to a neurologist for a full workup, wrote John Biggs, a social worker and retired psychotherapist who was based at Sheppard Pratt for 30 years. I wouldnt write him an OK-to-return-to-work note, much less declare him fit to occupy the countrys highest office.

The Alzheimers Society last month published an essay saying diagnosis at a distance is unethical and usually wrong.

Gartner strongly disagrees. Trump and Biden are, next to Taylor Swift, the most exposed people in the country. There are ample ways to observe their behavior and hear their words every day. In real medicine, Gartner argues, thousands of psychiatrists make diagnoses every day in clinical practice based on observation of behavior, history and informant reports. Research shows all of those methods are actually more accurate and reliable than a clinical interview.

The greatest ethical responsibility, he says, is the duty to warn, and at a critical time for the nation.

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Ryan Andrews is having treatment on a dead leg (Image: PA)

Interim Watford boss Tom Cleverley is hopeful Ryan Andrews and Jamal Lewis will be fit to face Leeds United when the Championship resumes after both players were ruled out of international action.

Right-back Andrews had been named in the England Mens Elite League Squad for away trips to Poland and Czech Republic, but has returned to London Colney for treatment on a dead leg.

The interim Hornets head coach told the club website: Ryan got a dead leg in training and was going to be doubtful for both England games so everyone thought it best for him to return to us for treatment.

Jamal Lewis may return to the Northern Ireland for their game with Scotland on Tuesday (Image: PA)

Lewis is also back with Watford and has been ruled out of Northern Irelands game with Romania tomorrow after being sidelined for last weeks 1-0 victory at Birmingham City with a foot injury, although he may yet return to the national squad for Tuesdays friendly with Scotland.

Cleverley said: Jamal's foot injury is keeping him out of the first of Northern Ireland's two games, but he's optimistic he may be okay for the second game early next week.

From our point of view, we're hopeful they'll both be able to play a part against Leeds, so let's see how they come through next week.

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If you'd like to be a Lafayette Police officer, this Saturday you can take the first step.

The Lafayette Police Department is hosting a physical fitness recruitment event on Saturday, March 23 from 8 a.m. until 11 a.m. at the track and field facility at Teurlings High School, 139 Teurlings Drive.

The event will start promptly at 8 a.m. with a physical fitness test, so anyone who wants to participate should be there before 7:45 a.m. to register. Participants should bring water bottles or sports drinks with them.

Participants should wear athletic clothing, including athletic shoes, and be ready to complete push-ups, sit-ups, a 300-meter sprint and an "officer down" drill.

The Lafayette Police Department will have PT instructors on hand and will begin the morning with a warm-up and stretch.

The recruiting staff will also be on hand to answer any questions participants may have regarding employment with the Lafayette Police Department and provide applications. This event is a requirement of the application process.

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Oprah Winfrey has once again taken to the airwaves to talk about her experiences with weight loss, this time focusing on how medications like Wegovy and Zepbound can transform the lives of people with obesity.

During the hourlong ABC broadcast, An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame, and the Weight Loss Revolution, the media mogul stressed how stigma shaped her struggles with weight and how medications changed not just her body size, but also her understanding of what causes obesity and what to do about it. She didn't say which medication she takes, but the special did highlight newer injected weight loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound.

In my entire life, I never dreamed that we would be talking about medicines that are providing hope for people like me who have struggled for years with being overweight or with obesity, Winfrey said during the special, which is now available on Hulu.

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So I come to this conversation in the hope that we can start releasing the stigma and the shame and the judgment to stop shaming other people for being overweight or how they chose to lose and not lose weight, Winfrey said. And more importantly, to stop shaming ourselves.

Here are some key takeaways from the special, including tips from Oprah and several medical experts who joined her for the conversation about weight loss.

One message came through loud and clear: Shame doesnt solve anything.

During the special, Winfrey recalled how she used to think about herself and her body, and how weight loss medications helped her move away from those negative thoughts.

There is now a sense of hope, number one, and number two, you no longer blame yourself," she said of her experience with weight loss drugs. When I tell you how many times I have blamed myself because you think, I'm smart enough to figure this out, and then to hear all along, it's you fighting your brain.

In the past, Oprah said she thought about dieting and weight loss as an exercise in willpower.

She recalled that what was cast as a triumph over obesity earlier in her career the day in the late 1980s when she wheeled out a wagon of fat on her talk show to represent her wildly successful weight loss efforts happened because she starved herself for five months.

After losing 67 pounds on a liquid diet, the next day, the very next day, I started to gain it back, Winfrey said.

Theres a name some people have for obsessive thoughts about what to eat: food noise. In a nutshell, food noise involves intrusive thoughts about eating that can contribute to disordered eating.

Oprah said that, looking back on her previous struggles with her weight, its possible food noise played a role. Medications helped quiet that noise, she said.

For the people who think that this could be the relief and support and freedom that youve been looking for your whole life, bless you, because theres space for all points of view, she says of people who think medicines might help silence their own internal monologues about food.

During the special, Winfrey, who left the board of WW (Weight Watchers) last month after a decade promoting the brand, said she invited Sima Sistani, the chief executive of WW International, to join her onstage to tackle a really tough topic: why some people succeed with weight loss and others dont. Sistani described why WW now embraces weight loss medicines along with its long-standing support for lifestyle changes.

We are the most clinically tested, evidence-based, science-backed behavior change program, but we were missing the third prong, which was biology, Sistani said. There could be somebody who needs medication because they have that biological underpinning, and what was so important is for us to provide that care and also to help people release the shame.

Echoing Oprahs message throughout the special, Sistani also acknowledged that dieting isnt necessarily enough on its own for people to manage their weight.

For all those people who came side-by-side and took on the behavior change, some of them walked away without the success, Sistani said. And to those people I want to say, its not your fault.

Two physicians also joined Oprah for the special, W. Scott Butsch, MD, the director of obesity medicine at the Bariatric and Metabolic Institute at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, and Amanda Velazquez, MD, the director of obesity medicine at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles. They both have financial ties to companies that make weight loss drugs, and they talked about how these medicines can address the biological underpinnings of obesity.

Theres a spectrum of obesity; its not one disease, its many different subtypes of a disease, Dr. Butsch says. Without recognizing this, its easier to believe the false idea that people with obesity made poor choices that failed to control their weight with good eating and exercise habits.

This is just a reflection of someones uneducated belief that this is a self-inflicted condition, as if people who have obesity want to have obesity, Butsch added. That these are weaker people who have no willpower and who cant cut it and people who are thin have willpower and can cut it.

After years of thinking that gaining and losing weight was a matter of willpower, Oprah now has a new perspective. And with that knowledge, she said shes found a new way to combat the shame and stigma that can come from having obesity or taking weight loss medicines to treat this condition.

All these years, I thought all the people who never had to diet were just using their willpower and they were for some reason stronger than me, Winfrey said.

But now I realize y'all weren't even thinking about the food, Oprah said. It's not that you had the willpower. You weren't even thinking about it. You weren't obsessing about it.

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Oprah Winfrey will return to the small screen on Monday to debut an hour-long television program entitled An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution. The new special follows Winfreys exit from the board of WeightWatchers, where she served for nearly a decade after acquiring a 10% stake in the company.

I look forward to continuing to advise and collaborate with WeightWatchers and CEO Sima Sistani in elevating the conversation around recognizing obesity as a chronic condition, working to reduce stigma, and advocating for health equity, Winfrey said in a statement.

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In December, Winfrey spoke to People about her use of weight-loss drugs, though she didnt specify which ones she used.

The fact that theres a medically approved prescription for managing weight and staying healthier, in my lifetime, feels like relief, like redemption, like a gift, and not something to hide behind and once again be ridiculed for, she told the magazine.

Ahead, learn more about Winfreys upcoming special.

Taped in front of a live studio audience, Winfrey will sit down with medical experts to discuss a variety of weight loss medications including Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy.

Winfrey will be joined by Cleveland Clinics Dr. W. Scott Butsch, ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton, ABC News medical correspondent Dr. Darien Sutton and Cedars-Sinai Medical Centers Dr. Amanda Velazquez. Winfrey will also speak to patients from around the country about their experience using weight loss drugs.

Questions addressed in the special include: Who are the medications really intended for? Who is eligible to receive weight loss drugs? What are the short-term and long-term side effects?

We are thrilled to work with Oprah and the voices she has assembled to open a dialogue that destigmatizes and educates viewers on the important and polarizing topic of weight loss, said Craig Erwich, president of Disney Television Group, in a statement. I can think of no one better to lead this meaningful conversation about such a critical issue that touches all of our lives.

It is a very personal topic for me and for the hundreds of millions of people impacted around the globe who have for years struggled with weight and obesity, said Oprah in a statement. This special will bring together medical experts, leaders in the space and people in the day-to-day struggle to talk about health equity and obesity with the intention to ultimately release the shame, judgment and stigma surrounding weight.

An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution airs Monday, March 18 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution will be available to stream on Hulu starting March 19.

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Intermittent fasting when people only eat at certain times of day has exploded in popularity in recent years. But now a surprising new study suggests that there might be reason to be cautious: It found that some intermittent fasters were more likely to die of heart disease.

The findings were presented Monday at an American Heart Association meeting in Chicago and focused on a popular version of intermittent fasting that involves eating all your meals in just eight hours or less resulting in at least a 16-hour daily fast, commonly known as time-restricted eating.

The study analyzed data on the dietary habits of 20,000 adults across the United States who were followed from 2003 to 2018. They found that people who adhered to the eight-hour eating plan had a 91 percent higher risk of dying from heart disease compared to people who followed a more traditional dietary pattern of eating their food across 12 to 16 hours each day.

The scientists found that this increased risk also applied to people who were already living with a chronic disease or cancer. People with existing cardiovascular disease who followed a time-restricted eating pattern had a 66 percent higher risk of dying from heart disease or a stroke. Those who had cancer meanwhile were more likely to die of the disease if they followed a time-restricted diet compared to people with cancer who followed an eating duration of at least 16 hours a day.

The study results suggest that people who practice intermittent fasting for long periods of time, particularly those with existing heart conditions or cancer, should be extremely cautious, said Victor Wenze Zhong, the lead author and the chair of the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in China.

Based on the evidence as of now, focusing on what people eat appears to be more important than focusing on the time when they eat, he added.

Zhong said that he and his colleagues conducted the new study because they wanted to see how eating in a narrow window each day would impact hard endpoints such as heart disease and mortality. He said that they were surprised by their findings.

We had expected that long-term adoption of eight-hour time restricted eating would be associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular death and even all-cause death, he said.

The data didnt explain why time-restricted eating increased a persons health risks. But the researchers did find that people who followed a 16:8 time-restricted eating pattern, where they eat during an eight-hour window and fast for 16, had less lean muscle mass compared to people who ate throughout longer periods of the day. That lines up with a previous clinical trial published in JAMA Internal Medicine, which found that people assigned to follow a time-restricted diet for three months lost more muscle than a control group that was not assigned to do intermittent fasting.

Holding onto muscle as you age is important. It protects you against falls and disability and can boost your metabolic health. Studies have found that having low muscle mass is linked to higher mortality rates, including a higher risk of dying from heart disease, said Zhong.

He stressed that the findings were not definitive. The study uncovered a correlation between time-restricted eating and increased mortality, but it could not show cause and effect. Its possible for example that people who restricted their food intake to an eight-hour daily window had other habits or risk factors that might explain their increased likelihood of dying from heart disease. The scientists also noted that the study relied on self-reported dietary information. Its also possible that the participants did not always accurately report their eating durations.

Intermittent fasting has been widely touted by celebrities and health experts who say it produces weight loss and a variety of health benefits. Another form of intermittent fasting involves alternating fasting days with days of eating normally. Some people follow the 5:2 diet, in which they eat normally for five days a week and then fast for two days.

But time-restricted eating is generally considered the easiest form of intermittent fasting for people to follow because it doesnt require full-day fasts. It also typically doesnt involve excessive food restriction. Adherents often eat or drink whatever they want during the eight-hour eating period the only rule is that they dont eat at other times of day.

Some of the earliest studies on time-restricted eating found that it helped prevent mice from developing obesity and metabolic syndrome. These were followed by mostly small clinical trials in humans, some of which showed that time-restricted eating helped people lose weight and improve their blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol levels. These studies were largely short-term, typically lasting one to three months, and in some cases showed no benefit.

One of the most rigorous studies of time-restricted eating was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2022. It found that people with obesity who were assigned to follow a low-calorie diet and instructed to eat only between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. daily lost no more weight than people who ate the same number of calories throughout the day with no restrictions on when they could eat. The two diets had similar effects on blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, and other metabolic markers.

The findings suggest that any benefits of time-restricted eating likely result from eating fewer calories.

Christopher Gardner, the director of nutrition studies at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, said he encouraged people to approach the new study with healthy skepticism. He said that while the findings were interesting, he wants to see all the data, including potential demographic differences in the study subjects.

Did they all have the same level of disposable income and the same level of stress, he said. Or is it that the people who ate less than eight hours a day worked three jobs, had very high stress, and didnt have time to eat?

Gardner said that studying intermittent fasting can be challenging because there are so many variations of it, and determining its impact on longevity requires closely following people for long periods of time.

But he said that so far, the evidence supporting intermittent fasting for weight loss and other outcomes is mixed at best, with some studies showing short-term benefits and others showing no benefit at all. I dont think the data are very strong for intermittent fasting, he added. One of the challenges in nutrition is that just because something works really well for a few people doesnt mean its going to work for everyone.

He said that his biggest complaint with intermittent fasting is that it doesnt address diet quality. It doesnt say anything about choosing poorly when youre eating, he said. What if I have an eight-hour eating window but Im eating Pop Tarts and Cheetos and drinking Coke in that window? Im not a fan of that long term. I think thats potentially problematic.

Do you have a question about healthy eating? Email EatingLab@washpost.com and we may answer your question in a future column.

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