Eating at Night May Put on Pounds »
Posted By Eagle_Eye 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Health & Fitness
When you eat, not just what you eat, can affect your weight, a new study on mice suggests.
Mice that were fed a high-fat diet during the time they'd normally eat — the regular hours in their daily circadian cycle — gained 20 percent in weight over six weeks. But mice fed the same high-fat diet during hours they should have been sleeping put on 48 percent compared to the weight they started with.
While the results would have to be replicated on humans to see if the effects are the same, researchers suspect they are.
"How or why a person gains weight is very complicated, but it clearly is not just calories in and calories out," said study leader Fred Turek, professor of neurobiology and physiology at Northwestern University. "We think some factors are under circadian control. Better timing of meals, which would require a change in behavior, could be a critical element in slowing the ever-increasing incidence of obesity."
The findings are detailed today in the journal Obesity.
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tommckeith3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Wow, thank god for scientists!
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Without these brave souls, we'd all have to go through life not knowing the absolute best biscuit for dunking in your tea, what really happens to those teaspoons that disappear overnight and that eating late at night and then sleeping on a full stomach MAY contribute to putting on weight. >.>
Here's a thought; how about you actually do research into something worthwhile? Justify that grant or lose it! -
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