The Claim
In young adults with overweight or obesity, 4 weeks of early time-restricted eating has no significant effect on subjective appetite ratings of hunger, satiety, fullness, or prospective food consumption.
What the research says
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In young adults with overweight or obesity, eating all meals within a narrower window during the day for 4 weeks does not change how hungry, full, or satisfied they feel, or how much food they plan to eat.
See the scientific wording
In young adults with overweight or obesity, 4 weeks of early time-restricted eating does not significantly affect subjective appetite ratings of hunger, satiety, fullness, or prospective food consumption, suggesting that appetite regulation is not meaningfully altered by this eating pattern in this population.
The body keeps hunger and fullness signals steady because the hormones that control appetite do not change their levels when eating is limited to a shorter window, so people still feel the same amount of hunger and fullness as before.
What the research says
1 studyPeople who ate only during an 8-hour window each day for four weeks didn’t feel hungrier, fuller, or more tempted to eat than when they ate normally — so the fasting didn’t change how hungry they felt.
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