Time to eat influences your weight

in #steemit7 years ago

If you worry a lot about what you eat or how you lose it you should also pay attention to when you do it. Each time we are clearer than our internal clock, has much to say about it.

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What are you more about, fats or carbohydrates? Or what sport do you practice? If you care about your weight and your health these may be some of the issues that you do in your day to day. But have you ever stopped to think that the moment you eat influences your line? Well, you should. And the latest evidence suggests that the time of eating, when we eat, is as important as what we eat and how we do. The culprit of this is our circadian rhythm, the internal biological clock that controls the living beings. In the case of humans, this watch, among many other things, also determines what the body will do with the food we digest according to the time it is.

The clock that controls everything

If you pause for a moment to think you will notice that you tend to be hungry at the same time almost every day. You also have a very similar pattern of spending the day: eating, resting, working, sports ... From sleep to propensity for physical activity, through our digestive metabolism, the circadian rhythm controls all aspects of our life . Light is the "switch" that regulates this internal temporal control by the hormone melatonin. This triggers a series of metabolic responses in our body allowing us to carry regular daily rhythms: at what time is better that we sleep, eat or relax? As we see, feeding is one of these rhythms.

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Nice post! I studied this at the Mayo Clinic. It seems in general, an earlier eating window is healthier. That way the peripheral circadian clocks are co-entrained with the "master clock" (SCN). If you're interested, I've written a lot about it; eg, https://steemit.com/health/@caloriesproper/dopamine-and-breakfast