Are you an intermittent faster? If so, binge eating could be in your future, new study suggests - Fox News

Author Jordan Schueler, M.S., a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Texas A&M, started developing the new study in 2019.

"There wasn’t much information about the psychological effects of intermittent fasting — only its impact on medical outcomes like weight and cholesterol," she told Fox News Digital in an email.

"I was interested in seeing whether this specific form of time-restricted dieting, where people may ignore their hunger cues for extended periods of time, could also induce binge-eating."

For those who already have a poor body image, intermittent fasting could quite easily trigger disordered eating, warned Tanya Freirich, a registered dietitian nutritionist.

Some experts, including Harris-Pincus, don’t find intermittent fasting to have much additional long-term weight-loss benefit over standard calorie restriction.

Schueler noted that the sample size was small and not very diverse in regard to gender identity, age, race/ethnicity, education or socioeconomic status.