For those who are on a diet
There is always time!
"I don't eat after six o'clock in the evening" – these words can often be heard from those who are trying to lose weight. Scientists disagreed with this approach to weight control, who showed that a diet aimed at combating overweight may not include giving up an evening meal.
Nutritionists, adherents of healthy eating and just people who want to lose weight often wonder: how does the time of day at which a person takes food affect the use and assimilation of nutrients by the body?
The answer to it was given by the results of a small study in which 41 overweight adults took part. Most of them were elderly black women with type 2 diabetes mellitus or with so–called prediabetes - a borderline condition when a decrease in insulin production by the pancreas and impaired glucose uptake by cells have not yet reached the stage of the disease.
All participants ate healthy, equally cooked food. Half of them adhered to time limits, eating 80% of their daily calories in the morning (up to 13 hours). The rest more evenly distributed their daily diet, consuming half of the calories after 17 hours. At the beginning of the study and later (after 1, 2, 3 months), body weight and blood pressure were measured in all participants.
The result was unexpected for the researchers themselves: both groups lost weight about the same; there was no difference in the dynamics of blood pressure between the groups.
Of course, this work was more of a "pilot" – now researchers are collecting more detailed data on the effect of meal time on a number of physiological parameters, including blood levels of glucose and the hormone insulin responsible for its utilization.
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