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Healthy Heroes: eating windows for firefighters
Feasibility of time-restricted eating and impacts on cardiometabolic health in 24-h shift workers: The Healthy Heroes randomized control trial
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What it found
A shorter eating window was feasible. Overall weight and glucose outcomes did not clearly differ between groups; some favorable findings came from exploratory higher-risk subgroups.
Keep these limits in view
One profession and short follow-up limit generalization. Intake was self-reported, actual windows exceeded the target on average, and multiple outcomes and subgroup analyses were not adjusted for multiple comparisons.
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- Evidence type
- Randomized controlled trial
- Population or scope
- Firefighters working 24-hour shifts; mostly men
- Sample or coverage
- 150 randomized; 137 completed
- Study duration or data period
- 12 weeks
- Comparison
- A self-selected 10-hour eating-window target versus usual care; both groups received Mediterranean-diet counseling and used an app to log intake.
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