A glucose monitor didn't clearly help people keep to an 8-hour eating window
Who it’s about: Adults
- No comparison
Sensor users kept to the 8-hour eating window on slightly more days than others, but this was never tested.
- Action: Eat your mealsused
- Action: Track your progressused
- Rule: Get feedback on your progressused
- Rule: Work only in set time windowsused
- Rule: Every dayused
Very small randomised trial of 22 healthy adults in New Zealand · no comparison group · they rated themselves · ⚠ student thesis, not checked by other scientists; only counted people who finished; numbers unreliable; summary claims more than the results show; groups weren't properly compared
The study
Who took part
22 healthy adults in Dunedin, New Zealand, 11 in each group, of whom 9 and 11 were counted at the end. They were about 33 on average, and 12 of the 22 were women.
What they did
For 14 days, both groups ate only within 8 hours each day. They wrote down their eating times in a paper diary. One group also wore a small sensor that showed their blood sugar. They checked it on waking and when the eating time started and ended.
What happened
People with the sensor kept to the 8 hours on about 10 of 14 days, against 8 or 9 days. 5 of 9 people with the sensor kept to it on at least 8 in 10 days, against 3 of 11 without. The eating time was about 8 hours long in both groups. The researchers never tested whether the groups really differed.
Source
Continuous Glucose Monitoring to Enhance Adherence to Time-restricted Eating (2024)
