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6 Israelis killed in east Jerusalem attack

JERUSALEM:

Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus stop in east Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people and wounding others, according to Israel’s foreign minister, in one of the deadliest attacks on Israel since the start of the Gaza war.
“Palestinian terrorists murdered six Israelis,” Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said, adding that one of the dead was a recent immigrant from Spain.
Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA) had earlier reported 15 people wounded in the late morning attack at the Ramot Junction in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, with seven in serious condition. Police said the two gunmen were also killed.
Four of the dead were ultra-Orthodox Israeli men, according to local media.
At the scene of the attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “Let it be clear: these murders strengthen our determination to fight terrorism.”
“We are now engaged in pursuit and are cordoning off the villages from which the murderers came. We will apprehend whoever aided and dispatched them, and we will take even stronger steps.”
Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir later said in a statement that he “ordered a full closure of the area from which the terrorists came”.
“We will continue with a determined and ongoing operational and intelligence effort, we will pursue terror cells everywhere, and we will thwart terrorist infrastructure and its organizers,” he added.
The Israeli military had earlier said troops were “encircling several areas on the outskirts of Ramallah” in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in response to the attack.
Hamas said it was carried out by two Palestinians. “We affirm that this operation is a natural response to the crimes of the occupation and the genocide it is waging against our people,” Hamas said in a statement.
Israeli soldiers
Palestinian killed four Israeli soldiers on Monday after lobbing an explosive device into their tank, the Israeli military said.
“Around 6:00 in the morning (0300 GMT), a squad of three terrorists arrived at the IDF (Israeli military) post near Sheikh Radwan in northern Gaza,” it said in a statement.
“The terrorists threw an explosive device into an IDF tank — the device detonated, killing the four IDF soldiers who were in the tank at the time.”
Another soldier was moderately injured in the exchange of fire that ensued, the military said, adding that “hits were identified” on two of the three militants who carried out the assault.
Only three of the dead soldiers were named, while the name of the fourth has not yet been cleared for publication.
According to an AFP toll based on data from the Israeli military, 468 soldiers have been killed since the start of the military’s ground offensive in Gaza on October 27, 2023.

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September 8, 2025
Townsend reveals how the US Open changed her, both on the court and off

It was quite the US Open for Taylor Townsend, in more ways than one.

There was the unfortunate incident at net with Jelena Ostapenko, for which the American was praised by fans and fellow players for her poise and temperament during a difficult situation, and then her magnificent run to the fourth round, where she came oh-so-close to knocking off two-time Grand Slam champion Barbora Krejcikova for a spot in the quarterfinals.

Oh, and then she made the doubles final, capping a highly productive three weeks in New York that kicked off with a star pairing — alongside Ben Shelton — in the mixed doubles tournament.

The 29-year-old became an even bigger fan favorite at the year’s final Slam, her powerful statements and inspiring run taking center stage in New York, and she joined CBS Mornings on Monday to discuss how this tournament has changed her, both personally and professionally.

“It was an opportunity for the world to see the work that I’ve been doing,” the top-ranked doubles player said, referencing how she handled Ostapenko’s comments and the subsequent media attention. “As athletes, and in professional sports, you see the end result, you see the outcomes of all the hours and all the things.

“But I think the biggest way that it changed me was my self-worth got to be on display, the way that I’ve been working on myself and the person that I am. How I want to show up in the world, it was tested — but then it was also displayed.”

Townsend said plenty of off-court opportunities have presented themselves already in the aftermath of the tournament — “This is what I’ve been dreaming for,” she says — and she also feels a renewed energy on the court.

Discussing her crushing fourth-round loss to Krejcikova, a match where she let eight match points slip away in front of more than 14,000 fans that were firmly in her favor, Townsend expressed gratitude rather than bitter disappointment. Of course the loss was painful, but in defeat she rediscovered a burning motivation.

“I fell in love with the game again in the match that I lost,” said Townsend, who played that match in front of her 4-year-old son, A.J. “It so was so weird. After I was done playing, I was just like, ‘Oh my god, I love this. I can’t wait to go back out.’ So the loss really motivated me in a way, honestly, that I haven’t felt in a really, really long time.”

With her run to the fourth round in Queens, which included a win over fifth-seeded Mirra Andreeva, Townsend moved 27 spots up the PIF WTA Rankings, up to No. 112 in the world.

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September 8, 2025
Chocolate snack that could lower cholesterol levels by 7 per cent, according to study
Indulging in a spot of chocolate occasionally might not merely be a guilty pleasure but could genuinely provide health benefits, with research indicating it may assist in reducing “bad” cholesterol levels. Dark chocolate, particularly when paired with another nutritious snack, could deliver surprising advantages.

The results from studies published in the Journal of the American Heart Association reveal that consuming dark chocolate alongside almonds can lead to decreased cholesterol levels in merely four weeks.

This specific combination was discovered to particularly target low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL), more widely known as “bad” cholesterol.

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While the body requires some cholesterol to operate correctly, excessive amounts can block arteries and heighten the risk of heart disease.

The study, conducted by Pennsylvania State University and Tufts University in Boston, included 48 participants who were overweight or obese, ranging in age from 30 to 70 years, reports the Express.

Their objective was to examine the impact of dark chocolate, cocoa, and almonds on factors linked with coronary heart disease risk – one of the leading causes of death globally. The research was undertaken across multiple four-week dietary periods.

Initially, participants avoided consuming any of the foods being studied during the first month. During the following four weeks, participants incorporated daily servings of 42.5 grams of almonds into their usual dietary routines.

During the study’s third phase, participants consumed 43 grams of dark chocolate alongside 18 grams of cocoa powder. The final stage witnessed volunteers eating a combination of all three treats.

The research discovered that almonds alone reduced harmful cholesterol by 7%, a percentage that remained consistent when almonds were paired with dark chocolate. Additionally, the study suggested that adding these chocolate treats to a typical American diet, whilst staying within daily calorie limits, “may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease”.

The researchers noted: “Our results demonstrate that consumption of almonds alone or combined with dark chocolate under controlled feeding conditions improves lipid profiles.”

However, it remains crucial to acknowledge that almonds and dark chocolate can be calorie-dense and moderation is therefore still essential. Study leader Penny Kris-Etherton commented: “It’s important to put this into context. The message is not that people should go out and eat a lot of chocolate and almonds to lower their low-density lipoprotein.

“People are allowed to have about 270 discretionary calories a day, and when foods like almonds, dark chocolate and cocoa are consumed together as a discretionary food, they confer health benefits unlike other discretionary foods such as frosted doughnuts.”

For those thinking about substituting almonds for chocolate, Kris-Etherton recommends caution. The study suggests that the consumption of dark chocolate and cocoa alone doesn’t notably affect cardiovascular health.

“Chocolate doesn’t increase cholesterol levels, but it doesn’t decrease cholesterol levels either,” she stated.

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However, cocoa beans are believed to provide their own health benefits through flavanols, a type of plant compound with antioxidant properties.

Past research has linked flavanols with cardiovascular benefits, such as enhancing blood vessel function and reducing blood pressure.

To lower your cholesterol levels, the NHS advises:
- Reducing fatty food consumption
- Increasing intake of fruits, vegetables, oily fish, nuts and seeds, olive oil, and wholegrain food
- Engaging in more physical activity
- Moderating alcohol intake
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September 8, 2025
Ayo Edebiri Says #MeToo, BLM Work ‘Not Finished’ in Viral Interview

Ayo Edebiri‘s response to a question about the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, posed to her After the Hunt colleagues, Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield, in a recent interview, has gone viral, as the reporter behind the inquiry is defending her line of questioning.

Federica Polidoro asked Roberts and Garfield, in an on-camera interview where they were joined by fellow star Edebiri, “Now that the #MeToo era and the Black Lives Matters are done, what [do] we have to expect in Hollywood and what we lost if we lost something with the politically correct era?” Polidoro stated her question was specifically directed at Roberts and Garfield, but Edebiri, who looked confused, responded.

After raising her hand, she began, “I know that that’s not for me and I don’t know if it’s purposeful that it’s not for me but I just am curious.”

She continued, “I don’t think it’s done. I don’t think it’s done at all. I think maybe hashtags might not be used as much, but I do think that there’s work being done by activists, by people, every day, that’s beautiful, important work that’s not finished, that’s really, really, really active for a reason, because this world is really charged. And that work isn’t finished at all. Maybe there’s not mainstream coverage in the way that there might have been, daily headlines in the way that it might have been eight or so years ago, but I don’t think it means that the work is done. That’s what I would say.”

Garfield agreed, saying, the “movements are still absolutely alive, as you say, just maybe not as labeled or covered or magnified as much.”

Two days after the interview was posted to ArtsLifeTV’s YouTube channel, Polidoro, who previously contributed to The Hollywood Reporter‘s now-defunct Italian publication, THR Roma, defended her line of questioning and said she had “been subjected to personal insults and attacks because of a question that, for some reason, was not well received by some members of the public.”

“I am not aware of any protocol that dictates the order in which questions must be asked in an interview,” she wrote in part on her Instagram account. “Censoring or delegitimizing questions considered ‘uncomfortable’ does not fall within the practice of democracy.”

She continued, suggesting that she’s neither racist nor xenophobic, and cited her extensive, long career.

“To those who unjustly accuse me of racism, I would like to clarify that in my work I have interviewed people of every background and ethnicity, and my own family is multi-ethnic, matriarchal, and feminist, with a significant history of immigration,” she wrote. “I have collaborated for over 20 years with numerous national and international publications of all political orientations, always approaching my work with openness and professional rigor. In my view, the real racists are those who see racism everywhere and seek to muzzle journalism, limiting freedom of analysis, critical thinking and the plurality of perspectives.”

The Luca Guadagnino-directed, Nora Garrett-written After the Hunt, which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and is set to open the New York Film Festival, is a psychological thriller about a college professor (Roberts) whose star student (Edebiri) makes an accusation against one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield) as a dark secret from the professor’s past threatens to emerge. Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny round out the cast.

Ironically, the Amazon MGM Studios film’s tagline is “not everything is supposed to make you comfortable.”

During a press conference in Venice, Roberts was asked if the #MeToo thriller could be considered anti-feminist and she embraced the film’s ability to spark discussions.

“There’s a lot of old arguments that get rejuvenated in this movie in a way that does create conversation,” she said. “The best part of your question is you talking about how you all came out of the theater talking about [the film], and that’s how we wanted it to feel — that everybody comes out with all these different feelings, emotions, and points of view. You realize what you believe in strongly and what your convictions are because we stir it all up for you.”

The movie is set to hit theaters in New York and L.A. on Oct. 10 before expanding a week later.

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September 8, 2025
Are We in a New Bull Market? Sep 2025

Welcome to Thoughts on the Market. I’m Andrew Watrous, G10 FX Strategist at Morgan Stanley. Today – a look at how the US dollar behaves under different global growth circumstances. And why – contrary to the views of some observers – we think the dollar still smiles.

It’s Friday, September 5, at 10 AM in New York.

We’ve been talking a good amount on this show about the US dollar – not just as a currency, but as the cornerstone of the global financial system. As the world’s reserve currency, its movements ripple across markets everywhere. The trajectory of the dollar affects everything from your portfolio’s performance to the cost of your next international vacation.

Let’s start with the “dollar smile,” which is a framework Morgan Stanley FX strategists developed back in 2001, to explain how the dollar behaves under different global growth scenarios.

Picture a smile-shaped curve: On the lefthand side, the dollar rises, goes up, when global growth is concerningly weak as nervous investors flock to US assets as a safe haven. On the right side of the smile, when US growth outperforms growth in the rest of the world, capital flows into the US, boosting the dollar. In the middle of the curve – which is the bottom of the smile – the dollar weakens, goes down, when growth is robust around the world and synchronized globally. In that environment – middle of the smile – investors seek riskier assets which weighs on the dollar – in part because they could borrow in dollars and invest outside the US.

It’s kind of a simple framework, right? But here’s the twist: some investors argue that the left side of the smile might be broken. In other words, they say that the dollar no longer rises if people are really worried about global growth.

They say that if the US itself is the source of the growth shock — whether it’s political uncertainty or trade wars — the dollar shouldn’t benefit. Or that the rise in US interest rates, which makes it more expensive to borrow in the US and invest abroad… or changes in the structure of global asset holdings, might mean that growth scares won’t lead to an inflow to the US and a dollar bid.

We disagree with those challenges to the dollar smile framework.

To quantify the dollar smile, in order to test whether it still works, we started by using Economic Surprise Indices. These indices measure how actual economic data compares to forecasts.

We found that when growth in the US and outside the US are both surprisingly weak – in other words they’re much weaker than forecasted – the dollar rises on average about 0.8% per month over the past 20 years. Then on the right side of the dollar smile, when US growth really outperforms expectations, but growth outside the US underperforms expectations, the dollar goes up even more—about 1.1% on average per month. And in the middle of the

dollar smile, during synchronized global growth, the dollar tends to decline on average a little bit, about 0.1% on average per month.

The question is, does that framework, does that pattern still hold up today?

We think it does for a few different reasons. In 2018 and 2019, despite trade tensions and US policy uncertainty playing a big role in driving global growth concerns, the dollar strengthened during periods of poor global growth. In other words, the lefthand side of the dollar smile worked back then, even though the concerns were driven by US factors.

And in June 2025, when geopolitical tensions spiked between Israel and Iran, and growth concerns became elevated – the dollar surged. Investors fled to safety, and the dollar delivered.

It’s true that in April 2025, the dollar dipped initially after tariff announcements. But then it fell even more after those tariff hikes were paused, despite a rebound in stocks. Growth concerns were mitigated and the dollar went down. So this episode I think wasn’t really a breakdown of the smile. What weighed on the dollar this spring was policy unpredictability in the US, which led investors to reduce their exposure to US assets, rather than concerns about global growth.

So these episodes, I think, show that the dollar can still act as a safe haven, despite changing patterns of global asset ownership, the rise in US interest rates, and even when the US itself is the source of global concerns.

Now, setting aside the framework, it’s important to note that the US dollar dropped about 11% against other currencies in the first half of this year. This was the biggest decline in more than 50 years and it ended a 15-year bull cycle for the US dollar. Moreover, we think the dollar will continue to weaken through 2026 as the Fed cuts interest rates and policy uncertainty remains elevated.

Still, even with all that, we think our framework holds. When markets wobble, remember this: the dollar will probably greet volatility with a smile.

Thanks for listening. If you enjoy the show, please leave us a review wherever you listen and share Thoughts on the Market with a friend or colleague today.

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September 8, 2025
Australian lender ANZ to cut 3,500 jobs in late 2026

(Reuters) – Australia’s ANZ Group said on Tuesday it plans to cut 3,500 jobs by September 2026 and expects a A$560 million ($368.98 million) restructuring charge in its fiscal 2025 second-half results.

The lender said the move aims to simplify operations, reduce duplication and address internal complexity.

“Our changes also include ending or reviewing our engagements with consultants and other third parties, impacting around 1,000 managed services contractors,” ANZ said in its statement.

($1 = 1.5177 Australian dollars)

(Reporting by Rajasik Mukherjee; Editing by Mohammed Safi Shamsi)

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September 8, 2025
Charlie Sheen says he was ‘held hostage’ by his private life

Charlie Sheen wants to free himself from feeling like he’s being held hostage by his private life.

To shed that sensation, the “Wall Street” star decided to talk about his sexual past in his memoir, “The Book of Sheen,” which comes out Tuesday.

People from his past “had video things or whatever and had stuff over me,” the actor told Michael Strahan on “Good Morning America.” “So I was kind of held hostage, you know, and that’s just a bad feeling.”

Sheen talked Friday on the morning show about how his drug addiction led him to have sex with men — he called it “the other side of the menu” — and how he was forced to pay people to keep those sexual encounters out of the public eye.

Cherlie Sheen on his sexual encounters with men and feeling hostage by his private life.

He also hit on less salacious revelations like the connection between his stutter and his drinking. In the book, Sheen writes about masking his inability to pronounce certain words and sounds with drinking alcohol. “Drinking soften the edges,” he told Strahan. “It gave me freedom of speech.”

After joining the ABC show “Spin City” in 2000 and reading the script, he said, Sheen stopped hiding his speech impediment and asked for help.

“When in doubt, just be human enough to be vulnerable,” he told “GMA.”

Sheen also reveals in the book that some folks wanted to expose his HIV-positive diagnosis before he went public with it in 2015, according to People. Sheen said on “GMA” that finally revealing his diagnosis was a “tremendous relief.”

The “Two and a Half Men” actor — whose paycheck for the sitcom was estimated at as much as $2 million per episode — infamously landed in rehab in 2010 after threatening his ex-wife Brooke Mueller with a knife, trashed his room at the Plaza Hotel in New York and in 2011 was fired from his CBS sitcom amid a meltdown of epic proportions.

During the “GMA” interview, Strahan asked the actor if he had any regrets.

“I do,” Sheen said, “but there’s no value in them.”

A documentary about the actor’s life, “aka Charlie Sheen,” will premiere Wednesday on Netflix. Sheen, who has been sober for eight years, told People he decided to be vulnerable about his past because he wants to own his truth and his stories.

“The stories I can remember anyway,” he said.

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September 8, 2025
Angelina Jolie Recalls Her Mother’s Battle With Cancer

Angelina Jolie, 50, recently revealed how her late mother felt during her battle with multiple types of cancer.

Jolie’s mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died from complications of ovarian and breast cancer in 2007.

During a recent Q&A at the Toronto International Film Festival for her new film, Couture, Jolie responded emotionally to a question about how people can find hope through their struggles.

Jolie plays a film director named Maxine who is simultaneously dealing with both a divorce and a breast cancer diagnosis.

“I think I will say that one thing I remember my mother saying when she had cancer, she said to me once, we had had a dinner and people were asking her how she was feeling, and she said, ‘All anybody ever asks me about is cancer,’” she explained.

The Oscar winner also said, “If you know someone who is going through something, ask them about everything else in their life as well, you know? They’re a whole person and they’re still living.”

After testing positive for the BRCA1 gene mutation, which increases the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancers, Jolie had a preventive double mastectomy in 2013.

That same year, the Tomb Raider star published an op-ed in The New York Times about her experience with the procedure, which led to a nearly 40 percent increase in BRCA testing rates, according to a 2015 study by the AARP Public Policy Institute.

Jolie isn’t the only celebrity who’s openly discussed a parent who’s dealt with cancer.

In July, actor and model Kate Beckinsale, 52, shared the heartbreaking experience of losing her mother, Judy Loe, to cancer.

“She died the night of July 15th in my arms after immeasurable suffering,” Beckinsale posted on Instagram along with several pictures of her mother from over the years.

Actor Patrick Dempsey, 59, was a caregiver for his mother, Amanda Dempsey, who died after living with ovarian cancer for 17 years.

“In my mother’s case, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the late ’90s,” Dempsey said in an Instagram video in June. “Then over the next 14 years, she would have 12 reoccurrences, so it had a profound impact on our family, and everybody in the family handles it differently.”

AARP has resources on both ovarian and breast cancer, including five warning signs of ovarian cancer you shouldn’t ignore and six warning signs of breast cancer.

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September 8, 2025
WCH Tokyo 25 preview: women’s 35km race walk | News | Tokyo 25
- Spain’s 2023 double champion Maria Perez tops 2025 world list for 35km
- Peru’s 2022 double champion Kimberly Garcia will provide huge challenge once again
- 2021 Olympic 20km champion Antonella Palmisano leads Italian medal charge
Spain’s Maria Perez is in fine form heading into her defence of the women’s 35km and 20km race walk titles at the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25.

But if anything, her chances at the longer distance look better, given that she heads this year’s world list with the 2:38:59 she clocked when winning at the European Race Walking Team Championships in Poděbrady – despite stopping for a mid-race comfort break.

The Olympic 20km silver medallist already knows how to utilise her resources to best effect across the two distances, and she will have a full week to recover from the 35km race before taking up the 20km challenge.

But will she toe the line on the morning of 20 September as a gold medallist from the opening morning of the championships?

Among those who appear most capable of Spaniard’s plans is the 31-year-old whose feat Perez replicated at the 2023 World Championships – Peru’s Kimberly Garcia.

At the 2022 World Championships in Oregon, Garcia first secured the 20km title before going on to become the first winner of the newly-installed 35km race. A year later in Budapest she added a world 35km silver as she followed Perez home and missed out on a 20km medal by one place.

Garcia’s season’s best of 2:45:59 means she is only the 14th fastest in the field, but her personal best of 2:37:44 and the weight of her top-level experience tell a different story.

Another contender with solid gold credentials will be Italy’s Antonella Palmisano, the 2021 Olympic 20km champion whose season’s best of 2:39:35 puts her second on the world list behind Perez.

Palmisano took 20km world bronze in 2023, and added the European title in Rome a year later before experiencing the disappointment of failing to finish in the 2024 Olympic 20km.

China’s Asian silver medallist Ma Li, who set a PB of 2:40:49 in March, is the third fastest entrant ahead of Palmisano’s teammates Nicole Colombi (2:41:47) and Eleonora Giorgi (2:41:54).

Eight years after earning world silver over 50km, China’s Yin Hang makes her second World Championships appearance, this time over 35km. She has a best of 2:42:34 this year, putting her just ahead of Australia’s Olivia Sandery, who set an Oceanian record of 2:42.40 in March.

Like Perez and Garcia, Alegna Gonzalez is also doubling up in Tokyo. The Mexican, who finished fifth over 20km at the past two Olympic Games and at the last World Championships, made her 35km debut earlier this year and clocked a North American record of 2:44:28.

Other names to look out for include Brazil’s Viviane Lyra and the Polish athlete who followed Garcia home in both the 20km and 35km at the 2022 World Championships, Katarzyna Zdzieblo.

Ecuador’s Paula Torres, who has also set a personal best this year (2:44:26), is also a highly talented medal contender at a distance that is contested relatively rarely.

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September 8, 2025
Intermittent Fasting May Raise Heart Attack Risk
Intermittent fasting is a popular weight-loss strategy.

A new study suggests that those who fast intermittently have a 135% higher chance of dying from heart disease.

Less restrictive weight loss strategies can help you reach goals without health risks.
In recent years, intermittent fasting (IF), also known as time-restricted eating, has gained popularity as a go-to diet strategy for weight loss. There are different ways to try intermittent fasting, but essentially, the idea is to eat all meals during a restricted window of time each day—or on the days you’re engaging in intermittent fasting (some folks take certain days off from IF each week). Some promoters of intermittent fasting recommend limiting the eating window to eight hours or less a day.

And while many sing intermittent fasting’s praises, there are some questions surrounding its safety and efficacy, especially in the long term. For example, we previously reported on a study that suggests that limiting daily eating time to an eight-hour window was associated with a 91% higher risk of heart disease. And another study suggests that skipping breakfast, which can help you stick to an intermittent fasting window, may increase the risk of dementia.

American and Chinese researchers recently teamed up to dive into intermittent fasting research and see if there’s any connection between sticking to an eight-hour eating window and dying from heart disease or cancer (or dying in general—referred to as all-cause mortality). They published their findings in Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews. Let’s break down what they found.

How Was This Study Conducted?

Researchers drew their data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a U.S. study that ran from 2003 to 2018. NHANES was conducted annually, with information being released every two years. For this study, researchers used data collected from 2003 to 2004 and 2017 to 2018, and they included almost 20,000 participants, split fairly evenly between men and women. The average age was 52 at baseline (2003-2004).

Participants completed two 24-hour dietary recall questionnaires during those two survey periods, and they were asked to report at what times they ate. From this, researchers calculated an average eating window for each participant. Based on these times, they were categorized into one of the following eating windows: less than eight, eight to 10, 10 to 12, 12 to 14, 14 to 16 and more than 16 hours.

As part of the surveys, participants provided demographics, health histories and medical diagnoses. Researchers used the National Death Index to track participants’ deaths and causes of death.

What Did This Study Find?

After running several statistical analyses, including ones adjusting for certain demographics, like sex, age, BMI and lifestyle behaviors, researchers found that, compared to a 12- to 14-hour eating window, restricting the eating window to less than eight hours each day was associated with a 135% increase in the risk of dying from heart disease. This association remained strong in both the overall sample, which included all participants, as well as samples of people with heart disease or diabetes.

Researchers found no association between intermittent fasting and cancer mortality or overall mortality, though one model did show a 40% increase in overall mortality risk for the eating window of less than eight hours.

Some limitations of this study include the risk of bias and inaccuracies in participants’ reporting of what they ate. Plus, researchers drew data from just two 24-hour food recalls for each participant, which may or may not be representative of their regular eating habits. Researchers were also not able to determine where in the 24 hours the eight-hour eating windows fell—early in the day or later. That timing may affect the health consequences of intermittent fasting.

How Does This Apply to Real Life?

Though not all studies suggest a negative association between intermittent fasting and health, results like these do trigger a pause. While more research needs to be done, if you engage in intermittent fasting, it might be worth asking yourself what benefits you’re gaining from it and how you might gain the same benefits using a different, less restrictive strategy.

At EatingWell, we encourage you to tailor your eating habits to your lifestyle and preferences. But we also know that the body works best when it gets the energy and nutrients it needs throughout the day. After all, your body doesn’t take a break from using energy and burning calories, even while you’re sleeping.

Regarding weight loss, there is evidence suggesting that intermittent fasting is no more effective than simply reducing calories. If weight loss is a goal of yours, there are other ways to go about it that will keep you energized and nourished throughout your day. And yes, we have a meal plan for that! We suggest our 7-Day No-Sugar Mediterranean Diet Meal Plan for Weight Loss to get you started. When you’re ready for more, dive into our 30-Day High-Protein, High-Fiber Meal Plan for Weight Loss. (And then start trying out more of our favorite, flavorful recipes for weight loss, like these tasty snacks.)

Of course, food isn’t the only way to a healthy weight—or heart. Physical activity is also key, as is addressing your stressors and getting enough quality sleep. Choose which areas you want to start with and develop a plan that includes your goals and the obstacles you might face along the way. Just remember that the best strategy for your health should be adaptable and allow you to be kind to yourself. A weight loss journey can be tough, but planning and setting realistic goals can be a big help.

Our Expert Take

This study suggests that people who engage in intermittent fasting with an eating window of less than eight hours may have a 135% increased risk of dying from heart disease compared to people who allow for a 12- to 14-hour eating window. If you love your intermittent fasting and feel you’re getting real benefits from it, just be aware of the potential longer-term risks to your health. If you desire to lose weight but know intermittent fasting isn’t for you, consider following any of our meal plans for weight loss or talking with a registered dietitian who can help you tailor strategies to your preferences and lifestyle.
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September 8, 2025