High-Intensity Interval Training and Intermittent Fasting Improve Health for Overweight Women
There are many potential health benefits to intermittent fasting and high-intensity interval training (HIIT), particularly for people with overweight or obesity. Now, a new study offers fresh evidence that adopting both of these approaches at once may be better for attacking risk factors like high blood sugar and excess fat around the midsection that can lead to heart attacks and strokes.“Isolated time-restricted eating and HIIT have received increasing attention for being effective and feasible strategies for at-risk populations,” senior author Trine Moholdt, PhD, head of the exercise, cardiometabolic health, and reproduction research group at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, said in a statement. “We wanted to compare the effects of the combination of time-restricted eating and HIIT with their isolated effects, and to determine whether time-restricted…