Eating early is known to be good for health.
RADOR RADIO ROMANIA – It is known that eating early is good for health. A new study shows that this would significantly reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases – coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular pathologies, such as stroke. Researchers from the Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team – EREN (Inserm, Inrae, Sorbonne-Paris-Nord University) – and the Global Health Institute of Barcelona used data from 103,389 adults in the NutriNet-Santé cohort from 2009 to 2022 (79% women) to study the effects of meal times on cardiovascular disease risk.
While cardiac and cerebrovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the world and half of the cases are related to diet, this paper concludes that eating late in the morning and in the last hour of the day is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Specifically, delaying breakfast time is associated with a 6 percent increase in cardiovascular disease risk with each hour, the study found. Example: a person who usually eats breakfast at 9 a.m. would have a 6% higher risk of cardiovascular disease than a person who eats it at 8 a.m. Delaying the meal by one hour is associated with an 8% increase of stroke risk every hour. However, there is no increased risk of coronary heart disease. Overall, eating late, after 9pm, is associated with a 28% increased risk of developing a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or stroke compared to eating dinner before 8pm.
Another result of the study shows that the longer we extend the duration of the night fast (the time between the last meal of the day and breakfast the next day), the lower the cardiovascular risk. But be careful, warns the researcher, “our studies suggest that this period must be coupled with an early morning food intake.”
How can we explain all these findings? Like light and our daily activities, food is a well-known external synchronizer of the circadian clock and the peripheral clocks of the circadian system, located in most of our organs, especially the liver. These clocks regulate blood pressure rhythms and metabolic processes, writes Le Monde.
2023-12-20 14:43:29
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