Health Update: Early Breakfast Reduces Risk of Diabetes
Hello everyone:
Here is some of the latest news about early time restricted eating, also known as intermittent fasting or more properly, chrononutrition. Here is what the authors have to say on why eating according to our natural built-in rhythms is essential for optimal health:
“Eating breakfast after 9 a.m. increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 59% compared to people who eat breakfast before 8 a.m. This is the main conclusion of a study which followed more than 100,000 participants in a French cohort. The results show that we can reduce the risk of diabetes not only by changing what we eat, but also when we eat it.
Taken together, these results consolidate the use of chrononutrition (i.e. the association between diet, circadian rhythms and health) to prevent type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases.”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/07/230718105633.htm
Bottom Line:
To get a better sense of how to incorporate this info into your daily life, you would benefit from reading the book titled “What to Eat When” by Michael Roizen, MD. Essentially, you need to eat breakfast (which can be large or small or medium…you just need to eat some type of breakfast), and lunch, and both before 2 pm. This means that you get 80% of your total daily calories by 2 pm and then dinner is light at only 20% of your total daily caloric intake. For those of you who do not eat a breakfast, you may start by taking ½ of your early dinner (between 5 to 6 pm is best) for breakfast…and yes, dinner for breakfast is actually better than it sounds. Doing this seems to re-align our natural circadian rhythms that restore many function including hormonal balance, blood sugar, brown fat metabolism, sleep, weight, inflammation, digestion and more.
So, get in touch with your innate rhythms and get into harmony with your nature by eating the way our systems were designed! You will feel better and de-flammerate!