When to Eat: Fast and Break-Fast

Cherry-picking studies to fit a premise can steer you in the wrong direction. The Adventist Health Studies are specific to a population of 7th-Day Adventists, who are not only vegetarian but have particularly healthful lifestyle habits overall (and have a strong social-support system). I'm not sure how strongly that population correlates with the average, overweight general public.

Generally speaking, though, scheduled fasting as a strategy (limited feeding hours, alternate day fasting is getting more and more supportive science every month.

Related reading:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413117...

http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131(15)0...

http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)30130-7

http://news.usc.edu/116479/scientifically-designed-fasting-d...

"The study also noted that the longer you fast (18–24 hours) the more less you weigh."

Huh.