Does eating before 15 hours increases weight loss?
According to a study by Spanish and American researchers published the latest issue of International Journal of Obesity, people who lunch early are more likely to lose weight than those who choose to do so later. The hours of breakfast and dinner, less abundant and less energetic, hardly influence weight loss.
To reach this conclusion, researchers analyzed a group of 420 overweight participants over twenty weeks following a dietary patterns designed to lose kilos and based on the Mediterranean diet. The survey results clearly show that "individuals who delay the main meal at noon (until after 15.00) experience a loss significantly less than those who eat early (before 15.00) weight", as Marta explained Garaulet, Professor of Physiology at the University of Murcia and lead author of the study.
"This is the first large prospective study shows that the timing of meals predicts efficacy in weight loss," adds Garaulet, which considers that future therapeutic strategies should take into account not only the consumption of calories and macronutrients, as classically done, but when ingested food.
According to a study by Spanish and American researchers published the latest issue of International Journal of Obesity, people who lunch early are more likely to lose weight than those who choose to do so later. The hours of breakfast and dinner, less abundant and less energetic, hardly influence weight loss.
To reach this conclusion, researchers analyzed a group of 420 overweight participants over twenty weeks following a dietary patterns designed to lose kilos and based on the Mediterranean diet. The survey results clearly show that "individuals who delay the main meal at noon (until after 15.00) experience a loss significantly less than those who eat early (before 15.00) weight", as Marta explained Garaulet, Professor of Physiology at the University of Murcia and lead author of the study.
"This is the first large prospective study shows that the timing of meals predicts efficacy in weight loss," adds Garaulet, which considers that future therapeutic strategies should take into account not only the consumption of calories and macronutrients, as classically done, but when ingested food.