Rachel Carlson
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Others might eat between the hours of 10 to 6, but do a 16-hour fast outside of that.
The idea is that these short periods of fasting will cause your body to start burning through stored fat reserves.
They concluded that intermittent fasting did not work for weight loss in overweight or obese adults, as compared to either traditional dietary advice or even doing nothing.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
The results of this literature review really focused in on weight loss as the standard.
But like you said, that's not the only reason people choose to try intermittent fasting.
And no matter what, Matthew told us that in medicine, very few things are risk-free.
So definitely talk to your doctor before making any big changes to your diet.
They told Ritu at the time that it's redesigning its platform to be safer for minors.
One intervention some parents and others have advocated for is chatbots regularly reminding users that they're talking to an artificial intelligence agent and not a human.
Laws in California and New York require AI chatbots to send these regular reminders every three hours.
So Celeste Campos Castillo co-wrote that opinion piece in Trends in Cognitive Sciences with Linnea.
She warns that if someone already feels lonely or if they're struggling with their mental health, a reminder that they're not talking to a real person could destabilize them and make them feel more isolated.
Yeah, it's a good question.
Celeste and Linnea are urging these companies to share their data more openly so they can study these interventions better and hopefully help shape more effective policy.
No, I'm totally with you there.
I was really proud of my 10K until I read this study.
And they found that running extreme distances can damage red blood cells.
These cells are super important.