Alexis C. Wood, Ph.D., chair of the writing group for the American Heart Association Scientific Statement: Caregiver Influences on Eating Behaviors in Young Children (May 2020) is assistant professor at UDSA Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. Offering perspective on AHA Scientific Sessions 2020 Presentation P805 copyright American Heart Association 2020 "One of the most striking conclusions to me is that, if you restrict your caloric intake, and that was their restriction was based off, giving these individuals less calories in their bed during the day, so you have a negative energy balance, you will lose weight. I mean, that is a striking conclusion that should not be overlooked. The second I should say, I'd say that's a fairly firm conclusion that builds up years of science. The second conclusion is that, tentatively, if you outsided what you eat, and how much you eat, because that is standardized, when you eat it, in terms of the period, the amounts of that, the percentage of the 24 hour day during which you eat, that does not alter weight loss or cardiometabolic outcomes, is the suggestion from this study. But I would say that if we look at this study in the light of five other RCTs, okay, randomized control trials, three found the same effect, two reported a very small amounts of weight loss, but in the meta-analysis of all of them, the studies, the overall body of science, is supports this literature that restricting your feeding window does not affect weight loss or cardiometabolic parameters. Unless and here's the caveat, restricting your eating window happens to also change the amount you eat or potentially the type of food you eat, or I guess potentially, your exercise pattern."