Time restricted eating: A revolutionary approach to combat obesity and enhance metabolic health

Overweight and obese people are growing in numbers due to the adoption of unhealthy lifestyle. Overweight and obesity leads to morbidity and mortality affecting every organ system within the body. Therefore, overweight and obese individuals modify the lifestyle through dietary changes. One dietary method which gets more recognition is Time Restricted Eating as one of Intermittent Fasting regimens. This past decade, many studies have found its beneficial impact on overweight and obese individuals. This review aims to summarize the effect of TRE on weight loss, body composition, and metabolic health. This review gives a comprehensive understanding on concept of TRE and how could TRE be beneficial. This review also compares TRE to other IF regimens to find the most appropriate IF regimens. Articles from Google Scholar were obtained. A total of 90 articles were then included in this literature review. This review reveals that TRE is a promising dietary method on weight loss and improvement of body composition. On metabolic health, some studies reported changes while others reported otherwise. When compared to other IF regimens, TRE results in no greater impact leading to a similar result of every IF regimen. TRE switches metabolism and improves circadian rhythm and oxidative stress. These findings imply the beneficial impact of TRE on overweight and obese people.