Is Time-Restricted Eating Beneficial for Weight Loss

The majority of diets emphasise what foods are good and bad for you to eat. A different strategy is time-restricted eating, which focuses on the timing of meals.

"Eating within a time window is all that time-restricted eating is about; it's not about the food itself," says Dr. Wesley McWhorter, an official with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

For example, you may follow a 16-hour fast and eat only inside an eight-hour window, then follow the same routine each day, he suggests. "You can eat anything you want during that window—