Eating time has an impact on weight

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Extract from the article: Respect the ten to twelve hour limit for the three daily meals. This is the key to avoiding overweight and preventing the risk of type 2 diabetes.

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The time of day you eat affects your health and weight. These are the famous rules of dietary chronobiology, which recommend that we eat a large meal at breakfast and a small one at dinner. A study by researchers at the Salk Institute (USA), gives another time-based tip to avoid weight gain and prevent type 2 diabetes: eat your three meals of the day within a maximum time span of ten to twelve hours.

In the scientific journal « Cell Metabolism », the scientists state that always respecting the same time limit for eating, for example ten hours, allows the body to anticipate food intake and prepare itself to burn calories. According to the researchers' theory, this anticipation of food intake favours the synchronisation of the digestive system with genes and proteins, so that it works more optimally. This reduction in the duration of food intake benefits the balance of the intestinal bacteria that control the metabolism. These conclusions were drawn from the observation of mice that were fed the same diet but not at the same pace. Those that followed a 10-hour feeding window were thinner and healthier than mice on the same diet that ate at any time. The food intake range should not exceed 12 hours. Beyond that, the slimming and health-protecting effects are cancelled out.

William O.