Diet Rule Losing weight made easy - thanks to the twelve-hour rule, significantly reduce obesity

New weight loss method: twelve-hour rule helps with weight loss

Who wants to reduce his weight, often torments with diets, where you can not eat this or that. However, a study has shown that what matters is not so much what is consumed, but when. The so-called "twelve-hour rule" can therefore help with successful weight loss.

Unhealthy overweight

Considering that overweight or obesity can lead to health problems such as high blood pressure and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, such as heart attack, there are truly enough reasons to get rid of excess pounds. Many try to become slimmer again through diets. But most of these methods are not suitable for everyday use and experts argue anyway for years, which form of diet is the best. According to a new study, it does not matter what is eaten, but when.

One study has shown that the so-called "twelve-hour rule" can help you lose weight. It does not matter so much what, but when is eaten. (Image: pressmaster / fotolia.com)

Study with mice

A research team around Dr. Satchidananda Panda of the Salk Institute in California found that the body burns extra fat and calories when ingested within a specific time frame.

For the study, the researchers used 400 mice on different nutritional plans: some of the animals got a fatty or high-fat diet.

Others were given a high-sugar diet and others were given a balanced diet or fed in different time windows.

12-hour rule shows effect

It turned out that the rodents, who were only allowed to take their food in a time window of nine to twelve hours, remained altogether leaner than the mice, who were allowed to consume the same amount of food for 24 hours.

Even the animals that were allowed to eat for 24 hours at the weekend, but returned to the maximum 12-hour rule during the week, set less than those who always had food available.

Obese animals even decreased according to this principle.

Not every time of the day suitable for eating

The idea of ​​eating only within a certain period of time is not new. For example, there are so-called interval fasting or diet approaches that suggest eating only up to a certain time. In addition, nutritionists emphasize again and again that not every time of the day is suitable for eating.

If it is fed late at night, the food is heavy in the stomach because it has already switched to sleep mode.

However, such diets are to be treated with caution. Even if this helps to reduce calorie intake, it remains important what is consumed over the remaining twelve hours.

With pizza, fries and pasta, those who want to lose weight could quickly slip into an unhealthy vicious circle.

Further research planned

This means that, among other things, attention must be paid to a balanced intake of vitamins. In addition, long fasting can lead to difficult to control hunger attacks.

It should also be noted that the study results in mice can not be directly transferred to humans.

Further research should therefore show what the 12-hour rule really means for weight loss in humans. (sb, ad)