Everyone knows that to get and stay healthy, you?ve got to watch WHAT you eat.
But a recent study conducted at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego suggests that WHEN we eat can be just as important ? if not more so.
Most of us eat whenever we feel like it. And if we are on an eating schedule, it?s usually throughout the entire day. The only time we don?t eat and give our digestive system a break is while we?re sleeping (which these days may as little as 4 ? 6 hours for many!).
That?s why the results of this study are surprising?
It turns out that keeping the times you eat to just a block of eight hours and fast the other 16 can be great for your health.
The study, published earlier this year in Cell Metabolism, took mice that shared the same genes, gender and age and split them up into two groups.
Both groups ate the same exact thing ? a high-fat diet where 60 percent of the calories came from fat.
The only difference? One group was allowed to eat and nibble throughout the day, whenever they wanted. The other group was only allowed to eat during an eight-hour window and fasted for the remaining 16 hours.
Researchers observed the mice for 100 days. At the end of the study, the mice who were allowed to eat whenever they wanted gained weight and developed clear markers of metabolic syndrome ? high blood sugar, high cholesterol and liver damage.
The mice that were only allowed to eat during an eight-hour period weighed 28 percent less.
But that?s not the impressive part? these same mice showed NONE of the negative health effects (i.e. high cholesterol, blood sugar, etc) that the eat-any-time group developed? despite eating exactly the same thing! [1]
Says Satchidananda Panda, the study?s lead author, ??regular eating times and fasting for a significant number of hours a day might be beneficial to our health.?
It seems that by letting your body fast daily for an extended period of time activates certain liver enzymes that cause your metabolism to burn extra calories as heat instead of storing them as fat.
For sure, more studies need to be done on humans to see the effects of fasting 16 hours and eating for only 8.
But there is promise. Most successful health interventions we know of today, were first tested in mice.
This may even be an interesting experiment to try for yourself, and see what happens. Now, this doesn?t mean you should go out and eat whatever you want. What you eat STILL matters.
Just keep eating the healthy meals you?d normally eat, but only do so during an eight-hour time-frame. So maybe from 9am ? 5pm or if you like to get an earlier start, from 7am ? 3pm, depending when you rise. Remember to still drink plenty of water and eat breakfast within 30 minutes of waking up though.
Who knows? Try it for 30 days and you just might surprise yourself!
References:
1. Megumi Hatori, Satchidananda Panda, et al.?Time-Restricted Feeding without Reducing Caloric Intake Prevents Metabolic Diseases in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet.? Cell Metabolism, 2012; DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2012.04.019
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Source: http://newfarmpersonaltraining.com.au/why-when-you-eat-food-matters/
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