Intermittent fasting, energy balance and associated health outcomes in adults: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prior studies have shown that intermittent fasting is capable of producing improvements in body weight and fasted health markers. However, the extent to which intermittent fasting incurs compensatory changes in the components of energy balance and its impact on postprandial metabolism are yet to be ascertained.

Methods

A total of 30-36 lean participants and 30-36 overweight/obese participants will be recruited to provide two separate study groups who will undergo the same protocol. Following an initial assessment of basic anthropometry and key health markers, measurements of habitual energy intake (weighed food and fluid intake) and physical activity energy expenditure (combined heart rate and accelerometry) will be obtained over 4 weeks under conditions of energy

SUBMITTER: Templeman I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5797418 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature