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Concerning study finds 'serious consequences for health' for people who eat after 5pm

Researchers from Spain and New York City found that eating at least 45 percent of your daily calories after 5 pm hinders the body's ability to regulate blood sugar levels.

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04.12.2024, 16:26

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Doctors have long advised people trying to lose weight to stop eating after the sun goes down, making lunch the day’s heartiest meal.

Now, researchers from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and Columbia University can point to another major benefit of this piece of advice for metabolic health, revealing that eating at least 45 percent of your daily calories after 5 pm hinders the body’s ability to regulate blood sugar levels.

Eating later at night can drastically increase the risk of developing diabetes.

Their findings could provide some scientific validity to the intermittent fasting diet plan, which discourages eating later in the evening.

About 10 percent of Americans use intermittent fasting as a diet. Fans of this approach typically restrict daily eating to a six-hour period each day, such as 11 am to 5 pm.

And people who engage in intermittent fasting usually take in most of their calories earlier in the day.

One of the study's co-authors, Dr Diana Díaz Rizzolo, said: ‘The body's ability to metabolize glucose is limited at night, because the secretion of insulin is reduced, and our cells' sensitivity to this hormone declines due to the circadian rhythm, which is determined by a central clock in our brain that is coordinated with the hours of daylight and night.’

People who consume 45 percent or more of their daily calories after 5pm are less able to regulate their blood sugar levels which, over time, can raise their risk of diabetes

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