Celebrities(名人) have all sorts of strange diets. One of the latest diets among celebrities is the "OMAD". Instead of only fasting on certain days or only eating your meals during a specific time window, people following OMAD eat all their day's calories in one single, large meal.
One study so far has looked at the effect of OMAD in humans. In this study, participants(参与者) were given the same number of calories to eat each day. For half of the study, participants ate these calories in a single meal, before switching(转换) and eating their daily calories in three meals. Each meal pattern was only followed for an 11-day period-not very long at all. The one meal was taken between 5 p. m. and 7 p. m., ensuring a particular flavour to the timing. Only 11 participants completed the study, suggesting a limited results.
When participants ate just one meal per day, they saw a greater reduction in their body weight, indicating a potential association between OMAD and weight loss. However, participants also experienced greater reductions in bone density(密度) when eating just one meal a day, suggesting a need to vary the diet for health. This could lead to reduced muscle function and greater risk of bone fractures(骨折) if the diet was to be followed for a longer period.
While these results may indicate that OMAD could have benefits for some aspects of health, there's still a lot we don't know about it. It will be important for future studies to investigate(调查) the effect of OMAD in a larger number of participants and in other groups of people, as this study only included thin, young adults. It will also be important for studies to look at the effect of OMAD over a longer period of time, and to conduct these trials in a real-life setting.
