Eat breakfast before 8:00 am to reduce diabetes risk
Eating your breakfast before 8:00 a.m. could reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. People who have their first meal after 9:00 a.m. are 59 percent more likely than the early bird to develop the disease.
But eating an early breakfast also means eating your dinner early too—and that should be before 7:00 p.m. if you want to maintain at least a 12-hour window between meals as recommended by advocates of intermittent fasting.
Researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health tracked the health of more than 100,000 people in France and discovered that it’s not just what you eat that raises your risk of diabetes; it’s when you eat.
During the seven years of the study, 963 participants developed type 2 diabetes, and most of the cases were among those who ate breakfast after 9:00 a.m. People who ate a late dinner, after 10:00 p.m., were more likely to become diabetic as well.
The ideal meal planning to reduce diabetes risk is breakfast before 8:00 a.m. and dinner before 7:00 p.m., the researchers conclude.
Int J Epidemiol, 2023; doi:10.1093/ije/dyad081
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