True or false:
eating dinner early, or skipping it, can help you fight body fat.
TRUE!
Although it
goes against your mother’s insistence that you eat three square meals a day, science
has proven that early-time restricted eating may have benefits for losing
weight. In a recent study presented at ObesityWeek 2016, researchers found that
having a very early dinner, or even skipping dinner, reduced swings in hunger and
altered fat and carbohydrate burning patterns, which can help with weight loss.
Skipping supper
as a means to a slimmer frame may sound a bit drastic, but remember that the
purpose of early-time restricted eating is not starvation. You should continue to
follow your normal diet filled with nutritious and well-balanced meals;
however, instead of your scheduled 5 pm supper, push the meal up to 2 pm, or eliminate
it altogether.
This new research
appears to suggest that if you want to lose weight, eating during a smaller
window of time can be the key to success. “We found that eating between 8 am
and 2 pm followed by an 18-hour daily fast kept appetite levels more even throughout
the day, in comparison to eating between 8 am and 8 pm,” said Courtney Peterson,
PhD, who led the study at Pennington Biomedical Research Center. This is
because of the impact that the body’s inner clock, the circadian clock, has on aspects
of your metabolism. During the morning, many aspects of metabolism are at their
optimal functioning; therefore, eating in alignment with the body’s circadian clock,
such as earlier in the day, can positively influence health and weight loss.
It may take
some time to change lifelong habits, but according to science, we should ditch
supper in favour of “lupper.”
What do you
think about early-time restricted eating? Do you have a cutoff time for eating?
Photo Credit: By
Jay Wennington, courtesy of Unsplash
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