> “Although the study identified an association between an 8-hour eating window and cardiovascular death, this does not mean that time-restricted eating caused cardiovascular death.” ... Factors that may also play a role in health, outside of daily duration of eating and cause of death, were not included in the analysis.
Sounds like this was entirely confounded by people with health problems trying to eat healthier and means basically nothing.
Seems silly to not, at least, split the population into those who made a choice to fast and those who couldn't eat. What an incredibly low signal to noise ratio.
What causes people to pursue studies like this? Or stop so, objectively, early in the analysis? Money runs out?
Sounds like this was entirely confounded by people with health problems trying to eat healthier and means basically nothing.