Meal Timing

Meal timing gets asked to do more work than the evidence supports — the "anabolic window," eating late at night making you fat, intermittent fasting as a metabolic hack. This is where those specific timing claims get checked against trials that actually manipulated timing, not just calories.

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ScienceMeal Timing

Does Meal Timing Matter for Weight Loss?

Time-restricted eating has a genuine mechanistic story behind it. The best controlled trial on it found something more modest than the marketing.

Single RCT
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ScienceMental Focus & Cognition

Nutrition Science for Creatives: What Actually Helps You Focus During Deep Work

Freelancers and knowledge workers get worse nutrition advice than athletes do. Here's what the cognition research actually supports for a working day, not a training block.

Meta-analysis

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ResearchMeal Timing

What the TREAT Trial Actually Found About Time-Restricted Eating

Over 12 weeks, 16:8 time-restricted eating produced no statistically significant weight-loss advantage over a standard three-meals-a-day pattern, once the modest calorie reduction that occurred naturally in the time-restricted group was accounted for.

Single RCT